Re: several date related issues

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:19:01PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

Right, we use our own routines for formatting the dates, and not strftime. And it probably should stay that way in general, as git's output is often meant to be parsed.

That being said, I do not think it would be wrong to have a date-mode that just showed strftime("%c"), or some other arbitrary strftime string. You could then set log.date as appropriate for human consumption.

Correct. The documentation says:

   --date-order
     Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but otherwise
     show commits in the commit timestamp order.

In your example, one commit is the parent of the other, so it hits the first part of the sentence, and the dates are never even compared.

There is not a simple way to show commits in arbitrary order without respect to parentage. I think you'd have to do something like:

  git log --format='%at %H' |
  sort -rn |
  cut -d' ' -f2 |
  git log --stdin --no-walk

-Peff