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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2021-04-08 11:53:12 (GMT)
committerKitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>2021-04-08 11:53:18 (GMT)
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Merge topic 'newer-git-show'
f71e7b8156 Help/dev/review: mention `--pretty=reference` Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Merge-request: !5994
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@@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ The preferred form for references to other commits is
The author date of the commit, in its original time zone, formatted as
``CCYY-MM-DD``. ``git-log(1)`` shows the original time zone by default.
-This may be generated with
+This may be generated with ``git show -s --pretty=reference <commit>`` with
+Git 2.25 and newer. Older versions of Git can generate the same format via
``git show -s --date=short --pretty="format:%h (%s, %ad)" <commit>``.
If the commit is a fix for the mentioned commit, consider using a ``Fixes:``