Review of Chapter 2: Basic Usage

[C. Michael Pilato]

David Summers wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> 
>> OFF-TOPIC:
>>
>> $ svn list --verbose http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
>>  20620 harry            1084 Jul 13  2006 README
>>  23339 harry                 Feb 04 01:40 branches/
>>  21282 sally                 Aug 27 09:41 developer-resources/
>>  23198 harry                 Jan 23 17:17 tags/
>>  23351 sally                 Feb 05 13:26 trunk/
>>
>> Do we know why sometimes a year is printed, and sometimes a timestamp is
>> printed?  I would have guessed "any time the date is not in the current
>> year, a year is printed" but that doesn't appear to be true.
>>
> 
> I believe the normal rule is that if the date is 6 months or greater in
> the past it is shown as the year.  Any time sooner than that is shown
> with the date and time and not the year.

How ... interesting.  And arbitrary.  And unintuitive.  I'm almost sorry I
asked.  :-)

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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com>

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