From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Storm-Olsen Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] --date=relative falls back to "short" format for commits older than a year Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:35:05 +0100 Message-ID: <49A39519.3030308@trolltech.com> 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> <20090224050400.GC4615@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigEF37A57ACDCF861D54260075" Cc: Junio C Hamano , eletuchy@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, eletuchy@facebook.com, Eugene Letuchy To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 24 07:36:43 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 1LbquJ-00066m-3i for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:36:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753439AbZBXGfR (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:35:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753141AbZBXGfP (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:35:15 -0500 Received: from hoat.troll.no ([62.70.27.150]:48053 "EHLO hoat.troll.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751779AbZBXGfO (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:35:14 -0500 Received: from hoat.troll.no (tedur.troll.no [62.70.27.154]) by hoat.troll.no (Postfix) with SMTP id AE60321016; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:35:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from [172.24.90.95] (unknown [172.24.90.95]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hoat.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AE621015; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:35:05 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 ThunderGit/0.1a Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: <20090224050400.GC4615@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEXU1NTAwMABAQGsrKyE hIQwMDAEBAS8hGUfAAACQUlEQVQ4jV2TS47cMAxEKSDZW1CfwMB4PYLkrKchsveJRR2gEen+R0hR 9vziBmahhyqSRQ4NfF1FmIv3dH4usNAGoFprBVguQJmZ1nX0XiHgEukTCK3TairiZeXcVGzmZIoU 3738pehdVbiU9KFgMQWeZ1fpHZDfRS4rPb3eQVaZChGx4ikt5GDkAZQ2KKohzjklno4+iJpVhxka ZjSpasJ4gdGaEQMWTMjRa5uTqza0XDJjzhIdzGTMrqoopimoIPCKZtVOq265MAXpMLXycmVl2Y8C oE1FkT/faKauOjYoHJyOxHfvixjowvI0xZJsKykubgLYzuJMdBO+L86TjxfQ9hz9jpSudbnXXzRm tor5i3MUONpOfARAhlWbzWF7OhP2eSeEW9HUBNiHOxUM8HLWHhUAj3NZNsdqRZpNA+DJ+XlX+Qc9 Z4ZjHX8LRUzgTBBef84NQoCMOcS0+BMsj3klbTzRri03ugXr9em1GfgzDAyEn4J3fvFI5YwdTrYu 1ntAY1h5ysM2OMGm+cBOocCXHisAHu2PagnLghoG2krz8bzsA4fj7KxCGk+63jt+DDCtYjbFNkHD nRwpRqsQYx5WYzsbm/eBfn0I4TbOGvMWqhQAiEDzNs4apumCI0x2OyHtY7uAlZff/sanbH9+AGT1 KOEmUlJISdYPgEgehw+cTZEf6xeFyoEjCPgv+A62KhW3EOy9PL7WmCBMRWmfYN0OqW9krzl/Ay91 75HMqfDtP8UFckFUX2rwrm/kTVB2gH+hdu4avZVCuAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigEF37A57ACDCF861D54260075 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jeff King said the following on 24.02.2009 06:04: > 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? >>=20 >> "3y 2m ago" <-- >=20 > Personally I think that looks terrible. But I recognize that it is=20 > 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". Ok, the standard abbreviation for month is "mo.", so "3y 2mo. ago" then? ;-) --=20 =2Emarius [@trolltech.com] 'if you know what you're doing, it's not research' --------------enigEF37A57ACDCF861D54260075 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFJo5UZKzzXl/njVP8RAsvJAKDWnn4O3h24foEi9uyLWCgde/2QKwCgmsI9 Tjz2Q7sGYdMIg4PQ3GR+i8M= =qbBW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigEF37A57ACDCF861D54260075--