[PATCH] gitk: Display the date of a tag in a human friendly way.

From: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Date: Jan 4, 2013, 15:47 UTC
Message-ID: <1357314431-32710-1-git-send-email-wildfire@progsoc.org>

By selecting a tag within gitk you can display information about it. This information is output by using the command

 'git cat-file tag <tagid>'

This outputs the *raw* information from the tag, amongst which is the time - in seconds since the epoch. As useful as that value is, I find it a lot easier to read and process time which it is something like:

 "Mon Dec 31 14:26:11 2012 -0800"

This change will modify the display of tags in gitk like so:

  @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
   object 5d417842efeafb6e109db7574196901c4e95d273
   type commit
   tag v1.8.1
  -tagger Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1356992771 -0800
  +tagger Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Mon Dec 31 14:26:11 2012 -0800

   Git 1.8.1
   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

Signed-off-by: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
---
 gitk-git/gitk |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gitk-git/gitk b/gitk-git/gitk
index d93bd99..aae1c58 100755
--- a/gitk-git/gitk
+++ b/gitk-git/gitk
@@ -10675,7 +10675,7 @@ proc showtag {tag isnew} {
     set linknum 0
     if {![info exists cached_tagcontent($tag)]} {
 	catch {
-           set cached_tagcontent($tag) [exec git cat-file tag $tag]
+           set cached_tagcontent($tag) [exec git cat-file -p $tag]
 	}
     }
     if {[info exists cached_tagcontent($tag)]} {

-- 
1.7.9.5