Re: [PATCH/RFC] git log --oneline alternative with dates, times and initials

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 29, 2016, 12:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20160929125238.hifkxe7cmyebg64u@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <82EE6519-E58F-4382-87A5-55D9D1BBDCA9@gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 04:00:06AM -0700, Kyle J. McKay wrote:

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> > Each of those commits[1] needs some minor polish, and as I'm not really
> > that interested in fancy log output myself, I don't plan on working on
> > them further. I was mostly curious just how close we were. But if you'd
> > like to pursue it, feel free to use them as a starting point.
> 
> Those patches are missing some of the features like showing root commits,
> handling two letter initials, showing the weekday, inserting a break where
> needed to avoid parent-child confusion in graph output and properly handling
> Duy's initials. :)

I'm not too surprised. I literally looked at the first screenshot from your output and thought "surely git can do that with some minor tweaks". Nor am I surprised that there are cases where the output is funny (99% of the time I spent on it was tracking down that graph-padding bug).

I have no problem taking this in contrib or whatever, until a point when Git is capable of doing the same thing itself. I just hoped to trick you into working on Git. :)

-Peff