Running 2.4.4
*** Dates do not respect LC_TIME
$ date
Thu 25 Jun 2015 13:02:48 CEST
$ git log --pretty=fuller --date=local | head -6 | grep -i date
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 16 16:47:08 2015
CommitDate: Mon Feb 16 16:47:08 2015
$ locale -ck LC_TIME | grep fmt
d_t_fmt="%a %d %b %Y %r %Z"
d_fmt="%d-%m-%Y"
t_fmt="%r"
t_fmt_ampm="%H:%M:%S"
era_d_fmt=""
era_d_t_fmt=""
era_t_fmt=""
date_fmt="%a %e %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"
*** git log --date-order and --author-date-order do not order by date
$ mkdir git-test
$ cd git-test
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/merijn/git-test/.git/
$ touch foo
$ git add foo
$ git commit -m boo
[master (root-commit) 09483e5] boo
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 foo
$ git log | cat
commit 09483e527d6a4d4a9e49f82a11871ab55133cf72
Author: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu Jun 25 13:14:37 2015 +0200
boo
$ touch bar
$ env GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2015-01-15 12:13:14" GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2015-01-15 12:13:14" git add bar
$ env GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2015-01-15 12:13:14" GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2015-01-15 12:13:14" git commit -m "Commit in past"
[master 6acc7f3] Commit in past
1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 bar
$ git log | cat
commit 6acc7f3d2cbaca7176b63ffac51005ce07b90b91
Author: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu Jan 15 12:13:14 2015 +0100
Commit in past
commit 09483e527d6a4d4a9e49f82a11871ab55133cf72
Author: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu Jun 25 13:14:37 2015 +0200
boo
$ git log --date-order | cat
commit 6acc7f3d2cbaca7176b63ffac51005ce07b90b91
Author: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu Jan 15 12:13:14 2015 +0100
Commit in past
commit 09483e527d6a4d4a9e49f82a11871ab55133cf72
Author: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu Jun 25 13:14:37 2015 +0200
boo
$ git log --author-date-order | cat
commit 6acc7f3d2cbaca7176b63ffac51005ce07b90b91
Author: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu Jan 15 12:13:14 2015 +0100
Commit in past
commit 09483e527d6a4d4a9e49f82a11871ab55133cf72
Author: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu Jun 25 13:14:37 2015 +0200
boo
$
H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>