From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] --date=relative falls back to "short" format for commits older than a year Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:04:00 -0500 Message-ID: <20090224050400.GC4615@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <1235165034-20299-1-git-send-email-eletuchy@gmail.com> <20090222230620.GB19011@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7v7i3ix6yi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090223031631.GC22348@coredump.intra.peff.net> <49A2599E.2030406@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , eletuchy@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, eletuchy@facebook.com, Eugene Letuchy To: Marius Storm-Olsen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 24 06:06:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LbpU7-0004qh-2p for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:05:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751117AbZBXFEJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:04:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751108AbZBXFEG (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:04:06 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:33890 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751049AbZBXFEF (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:04:05 -0500 Received: (qmail 11138 invoked by uid 107); 24 Feb 2009 05:04:27 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:04:27 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:04:00 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49A2599E.2030406@trolltech.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:09:02AM +0100, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: >> Another option would to give higher resolution in number of years, >> like "3.5 years" or even "3.1 years". > > And using shorter names for the units would be a no-go? > > "3y 2m ago" <-- Personally I think that looks terrible. But I recognize that it is very subjective. The only objective thing I can say is that "m" is not a unique prefix of a time unit, due to "minutes". Yes, it is obvious if you see the "y" first, but I actually parse the relative time backwards in my head and think "2 minutes ago, oh wait, 3 years, that must be months". -Peff