[PATCH] finddate bug?

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 01:59 +0000, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I got the following error:
> 
> mark at maw48:~/scratch/hgtest/testa$ hg update -d "<2008-01-09 00:00:00"
> abort: invalid date: '2008-01-09 00:00:00 to <2008-01-09 00:00:00'
> 
> I tracked the source of this down to finddate.  I couldn't see any obvious 
> reason why finddate would need to pass down (date + " to " + date) so I 
> applied this small patch, which seems to have made hg update do what I 
> expected.

It's magic. If you specify "Oct 31", rather than looking for a commit at
"Oct 31 2007 00:00:00", it turns it into a range: "Oct 31 to Oct 31",
which is then internally converted to "Oct 31 2007 00:00:00 to Oct 31
2007 23:59:59". Similarly, if you say "2005", it turns into "Jan 1 2005
00:00:00 to Dec 31 2005 23:59:59".

But it's apparently redundant magic as util.matchdate will effectively
add the "to" itself if it doesn't find one of "< > to -". So your patch
is good.

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