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From: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
To: Shaun Uldrikis <stuldrikis@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git log use of date format differs between Command Line and script usage.
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:41:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e7c7d22-36e2-20f4-0cfc-8cfe37d9a409@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADHEqX_fiUhnpn6WAFrbDaNJTb1Vbom7Ndn-n6WmQ0gkQ69ZeA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 30.06.2017 um 18:06 schrieb Shaun Uldrikis:
> If you supply a non-standard format to the date configuration for git
> log, something like:
> [log]
>          date = format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M
> 
> then, when you run 'git log' inside a script, or when using gitk
> (anywhere), it fails on decoding the format.
> 
> fatal: unknown date format format: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M
> 
> 
> However, that format works correctly on the command line.
> I do not have a patch to address this issue.

I guess you have two versions of git on your system, and the one used in
scripts is older than 2.6.0, which introduced this feature.

René

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-30 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-30 16:06 git log use of date format differs between Command Line and script usage Shaun Uldrikis
2017-06-30 16:41 ` René Scharfe [this message]
2017-06-30 16:43 ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-30 17:29   ` Shaun Uldrikis

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