Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] date: make "local" orthogonal to date format
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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- Sep 1, 2015, 22:39 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:33:08PM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
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> > Even in --date=raw, we do show the timezone offset, so I do not > > necessarily agree that raw-local is nonsensical. That's the only > > difference between the one I queued yesterday and this one. > > I suspect it depends on the interpretation of "raw"; the code currently > interprets raw to mean "exactly what exists in the commit/tag", in which > case converting it to the local timezone is wrong. But the > documentation describes "raw" as "the raw Git %s %z format", and if we > interpret it to mean "Git's internal date format" then "raw-local" makes > sense. > > The alternative would be the patch below as a preparatory step.
Ah, right, I forgot that we need to refactor show_date() to actually do the right thing.
I think I'd be in favor of just disallowing "raw-local", then.
-Peff