Re: ChangeLogs

[Daniel J Sebald]

Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:32 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On  5-Jan-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> >
> > | Applied.
> >
> > Thanks for applying this change.
> >
> > It still seems confusing to me that you leave the ChangeLog entry
> > alone when applying patches.  If I do "hg log" now, I see
> >
> > changeset:   8444:c3ac9f2772cd
> > tag:         tip
> > user:        Thorsten Meyer <address@hidden>
> > date:        Mon Jan 05 10:54:22 2009 +0100
> > summary:     do not eat white space within @example environments of docstrings

So this is how to get the date of some change to use in the "revert" routine to 
get a specific version?  E.g.,

hg revert -dMon Jan 05 10:54:22 2009 +0100 <URL>

Looking at the web interface I see an "hours ago" or "minutes" ago.  That's good for 
relative time, but it doesn't exactly indicate the time the change was made because "hours ago" 
doesn't factor in time zone.  One can follow the link to details about the change set, but the date there 
doesn't reflect the time checked in--if I'm following correctly.

Dan