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 08:33:37 -0800 Message-ID: <7v8wnxun8e.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> 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 Mon Feb 23 17:35:57 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 1LbdmR-0004d0-Fs for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:35:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756864AbZBWQdv (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:33:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756846AbZBWQdu (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:33:50 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:54999 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756834AbZBWQdt (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:33:49 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF749CC95; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:33:47 -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 a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BED829CC88; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:33:39 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: BE54972A-01C7-11DE-B87B-B26E209B64D9-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: > I thought about that, but I wanted to keep the maximum size down for > column output (like in git-blame). Which is why I bumped the "use > months" limit to 24 months instead of 12. > > And that limit can also be tweaked. Surely at some point there is a > range where you no longer care about the months and "N years" has high > enough resolution. But there is also a point where "N months" gets > cumbersome (75 months is a more annoying than "around 6 years"). The > question is whether we reach the "cumbersome" point before we reach the > "don't care about months" point. 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. > 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.