From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: pretty placeholders for reflog entries Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:47:45 -0500 Message-ID: <20111108054745.GD29643@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20111107211325.GB7380@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20111107224556.GA28188@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7v8vnr1oww.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Jack Nagel , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 08 06:47:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RNeXI-0003EM-7K for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:47:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751733Ab1KHFrr (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:47:47 -0500 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:36084 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751678Ab1KHFrr (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2011 00:47:47 -0500 Received: (qmail 1176 invoked by uid 107); 8 Nov 2011 05:47:48 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:47:48 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:47:45 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7v8vnr1oww.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 03:41:19PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King writes: > > > It would be a little nicer to provide explicit date placeholders, but we > > can't quite make them match the author-date specifiers, because "gd" is > > taken. We could add %gt, %gr, etc. But in the long run, I'd like to > > move to considering most of %ar, %at, etc to be historical, and have > > something like "%ad(short)" be the official way of picking different > > date formats[1]. And then the reflog placeholders could learn > > "%gt(short)". So making more reflog placeholders right now just feels > > like cluttering a namespace I'd like to get changed eventually. > > I tend to agree with the direction. > > As we are not adding anything new before the 1.7.8 final, I'd rather ask > you to hold onto this and other changes in your footnote, instead of > having me to carry them in 'pu', which is an integration branch even less > official than it would otherwise be during the freeze period. Sure. I'll re-send the patch once the release is out. That will also give Jack and any other interested parties time to comment and test. -Peff