Re: bisect does not respect 'log.date'

[Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>]

Osipov, Michael (IN IT IN):

> Interesting thought, but that also means that "git show" misbehaves because 
> it respects "log.date" and there is no "show.date". I still think that 
> consistency shouldn't be obeyed.
> I'd be happy if someone could consider this improvement.

I've also been annoyed at this. Everything else respects the date 
setting.

Bisect displays the commit through an invocation of "git diff-tree 
--pretty". This command does not respect the log.date setting, but it 
can be passed the --date parameter to format the date.

The question is what is the correct way of fixing this; is it to make 
"git diff-tree --pretty" respect the "log.date" option, or to make 
"git bisect" pass a --date pate parameter to the invocation of it?

Or perhaps everything should just be made support the "TIME_STYLE" that 
GNU tools use? GNU ls is so much nicer to use with "TIME_STYLE=long-iso" 
set.

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