01-02-2014
A best practice is to use the YYYYMMDD format (date '+%Y%m%d') for the date, so that further sorting are made easy.
Not that YYYY is better than YY because retaining only the 2 last digit suppose a loss of information and may lead to ambiguous situations.
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grep-changelog(1) General Commands Manual grep-changelog(1)
NAME
grep-changelog - print ChangeLog entries matching criteria
SYNOPSIS
grep-changelog [options] [CHANGELOG...]
DESCRIPTION
grep-changelog searches the named CHANGELOGs (by default files matching the regular expressions ChangeLog and ChangeLog.[0-9]+) for
entries matching the specified criteria. At least one option or file must be specified. This program is distributed with GNU Emacs.
OPTIONS
The program accepts unambiguous abbreviations for option names.
--author=AUTHOR
Print entries whose author matches regular expression AUTHOR.
--text=TEXT
Print entries whose text matches regular expression TEXT.
--exclude=TEXT
Exclude entries matching regular expression TEXT.
--from-date=YYYY-MM-DD
Only consider entries made on or after the given date. ChangeLog date entries not in the "YYYY-MM-DD" format are never matched.
--to-date=YYYY-MM-DD
Only consider entries made on or before the given date.
--rcs-log
Print output in a format suitable for RCS log entries. This format removes author lines, leading spaces, and file names.
--with-date
In RCS log format, print short dates.
--reverse
Show matches in reverse order.
--version
Display version information.
--help Display basic usage information.
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