Re: Feature request for shorter relative date format in log

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 02:07:16PM +0800, Yucheng Zhou wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I usually use --date=relative in git log, but I find it can be shorter
> to save more space and be more efficient.
>
> First, the trailing “ago” can be removed, because it seems every
> relative date has a trailing ago.  Second, the seconds, minutes,
> hours, days, weeks, months, and years can be shorten to a single
> letter (e.g., s, m, h, d, w, M, Y), and the suffix “s” for plural can
> also be removed in this case.  Maybe it will be better to give us a
> way to customize it, or create a new to config like
> --date=relative-short.

I can't think of a way that this is possible to do currently.

You can customize the format of absolute dates by using
`--date=format:xyz' where xyz is passed as an argument to the system's
strftime() implementation.

But we don't have a way for users to provide custom over relative dates.
Perhaps we should?

Thanks,
Taylor