From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] --date=relative falls back to "short" format for commits older than a year Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:59:26 -0800 Message-ID: <7v63j0mib5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> 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> <7v8wnxun8e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090224054216.GD4615@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: 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 08:01:13 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 1LbrHt-0003W2-EM for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:01:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754095AbZBXG7i (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:59:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753095AbZBXG7i (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:59:38 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:64124 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752830AbZBXG7h (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:59:37 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192D32BD02; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:59:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0C7472BD04; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:59:27 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20090224054216.GD4615@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:42:16 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B1BDE330-0240-11DE-AAEE-6F7C8D1D4FD0-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:33:37AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Yes, "75 months" is unacceptable. I suspect people's mind would not work >> well with anything larger than 60 months. I've actually thought about >> "don't care about months" point, but 12 months is a long time. You >> certainly remember there still was a noticeable maturity difference >> between classmates who were born in the earliest months of the school year >> and in the last months before graduating grade school. Perhaps after 20 >> years. > > I'm not sure human and code development necessarily follow the same > timelines. Git wouldn't even be in kindergarten yet. ;) > >> > Another option would to give higher resolution in number of years, like >> > "3.5 years" or even "3.1 years". >> >> But I do not think people think of years in terms of decimal fraction. > > I think decimal fraction is overkill. Halves or quarters are more > reasonable. > > But after sleeping on it, I think "Y years, M months" is not that bad. That was what I thought. There may be some very convincing reasoning I am not seeing in the proposals to make it ultra-short like "Y yr M mo" or "Y.x years" (i.e. "we _have_ to keep it under N characters"threshold), but I doubt there is a particular place "Y years, M months" would make the output too long to be acceptable.