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What is the return of hg tags --template "{date|isodate}\n"

I am using Mercurial "HG", I want to know what is the exactly output of 

hg tags --template "{date|isodate}\n"
Solution

  • prepare MWE:

    hg init test1
cd test1
echo test this > file.txt
hg commit -A -m "my 1st commit"
hg tag mytag1

    --

    now try different templates for tags

    normal tags output:

    hg tags
tip        1:e02e6bf615f5
mytag1     0:0970400e2de4

    --

    now let's try with the tag name and the tag date in short format YYYY-MM-DD:

    hg tags --template "{tag} {date|shortdate}\n"
tip 1970-01-01
mytag1 1970-01-01

    --

    and finally, the one you asked (with only the ISO date):

    hg tags --template "{date|isodate}\n"
1970-01-01 00:00 +0000
1970-01-01 00:00 +0000

    --

    if your doubt is about the template filters:

    hg help template

    isodate Date. Returns the date in ISO 8601 format: "2009-08-18 13:00 +0200".