From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:47:45 GMT
Subject: Re: pretty placeholders for reflog entries
Message-ID: <20111108054745.GD29643@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v8vnr1oww.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 03:41:19PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > It would be a little nicer to provide explicit date placeholders, but we
> > can't quite make them match the author-date specifiers, because "gd" is
> > taken.  We could add %gt, %gr, etc. But in the long run, I'd like to
> > move to considering most of %ar, %at, etc to be historical, and have
> > something like "%ad(short)" be the official way of picking different
> > date formats[1]. And then the reflog placeholders could learn
> > "%gt(short)". So making more reflog placeholders right now just feels
> > like cluttering a namespace I'd like to get changed eventually.
> 
> I tend to agree with the direction.
> 
> As we are not adding anything new before the 1.7.8 final, I'd rather ask
> you to hold onto this and other changes in your footnote, instead of
> having me to carry them in 'pu', which is an integration branch even less
> official than it would otherwise be during the freeze period.

Sure. I'll re-send the patch once the release is out. That will also
give Jack and any other interested parties time to comment and test.

-Peff