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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Tommy Thorn <tt1729@yahoo.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --format=pretty: new modifiers cID, cIS, CIY
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:29:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vabmk8dd4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <96032.15671.qm@web39506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Tommy Thorn's message of "Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:16:12 -0800 (PST)")

Tommy Thorn <tt1729@yahoo.com> writes:

> [resent, sorry]
>
> --- Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I think we would very much prefer, instead of
>> piling hacks on top of the originally supported 
>> "minimum set", to introduce a truly extensible 
>> syntax, like:
>
> I concur, but pretty-please make it a super set of 
> date(1) to the extent possible. It will lessen the 
> confusion. 
>
> Maybe something like "%c(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M) ...", eg.
> such
> that if `date +<format>' is legal, so is
> "%c(<format>)".

Please read what you are replying to again.  If you said the
above with %cT(...), it might have made some sense (but then how
are you differentiate between local and original timezone?), but
%c(...) needs to show not just the timestamp.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-01 22:12 [PATCH] --format=pretty: new modifiers cID, cIS, CIY Jari Aalto
2008-02-01 22:43 ` [PATCH] --format=pretty: new modifiers cID, cIM, CIS Jari Aalto
2008-02-01 23:04 ` [PATCH] --format=pretty: new modifiers cID, cIS, CIY Junio C Hamano
2008-02-01 23:16   ` Tommy Thorn
2008-02-01 23:29     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-02  1:12   ` Jari Aalto
2008-02-02  1:15   ` Jari Aalto

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