Re: [PATCH 1/3] log: Show reflog date with --date=normal

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Jul 28, 2009, 11:53 UTC
Message-ID: <200907281353.07590.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907281248040.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
> 
> > This means that 'git log -g --date=normal' shows the date, whereas 'git 
> > log -g --date=default' shows the reflog entry number.
> 
> I find this highly unintuitive, sorry.  I'd prefer it if it showed the 
> date whenever I specify a date format.

So you'd rather have a toggle --[no-]reflog-date? Which would make a lot of sense, but probably not be backwards compatible in the sense that log.date suddenly stops affecting the reflog date display.

> And I'd prefer not to have a distinction between "default" and
> "normal".

I actually had to change that because I wanted to allow the user to override the log.date config. Saying --date=unspecified doesn't make a lot of sense :-)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch