Re: [PATCH 1/5] pretty: allow formatting DATE_SHORT

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > There's no way to do this short of "%ad" and --date=short,
> > but that limits you to having a single date format in the
> > output.
> >
> > This would possibly be better done with something more like
> > "%ad(short)".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> > ---
> >  pretty.c | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
> > index 493edb0..c532c17 100644
> > --- a/pretty.c
> > +++ b/pretty.c
> > @@ -727,6 +727,9 @@ static size_t format_person_part(struct strbuf *sb, char part,
> >         case 'I':       /* date, ISO 8601 strict */
> >                 strbuf_addstr(sb, show_ident_date(&s, DATE_MODE(ISO8601_STRICT)));
> >                 return placeholder_len;
> > +       case 's':
> > +               strbuf_addstr(sb, show_ident_date(&s, DATE_MODE(SHORT)));
> > +               return placeholder_len;
> >         }
> >
> >  skip:
> > --
> > 2.10.0.566.g5365f87
> >
> 
> Nice. I use date=short in some of my aliases and switching to this is
> nicer. I assume this turns into "%(as)"?
> 
> What about documenting this in  pretty-formats.txt?