[PATCH v2 3/5] Add 'human' date format documentation
- From
- Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
- Date
- Jan 18, 2019, 06:18 UTC
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- <20190118061805.19086-4-ischis2@cox.net>
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- <20190118061805.19086-1-ischis2@cox.net>
Display date and time information in a format similar to how people write dates in other contexts. If the year isn't specified then, the reader infers the date is given is in the current year.
By not displaying the redundant information, the reader concentrates on the information that is different. The patch reports relative dates based on information inferred from the date on the machine running the git command at the time the command is executed.
While the format is more useful to humans by dropping inferred information, there is nothing that makes it actually human. If the 'relative' date format wasn't already implemented then using 'relative' would have been appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net> --- Documentation/git-log.txt | 4 ++++ Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt index 90761f1694..1d2d932c76 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt @@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ log.date:: `--date` option.) Defaults to "default", which means to write dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`. + If the format is set to "auto:foo", then if the pager is in + use format "foo" will be the used for the date format, otherwise + "default" will be used. + log.follow:: If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as `--follow`, diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt index bab5f50b17..5d58f35d19 100644 --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt @@ -835,6 +835,12 @@ Note that the `-local` option does not affect the seconds-since-epoch value (which is always measured in UTC), but does switch the accompanying timezone value. + +`--date=human` shows the timezone if it matches the current time-zone, +and doesn't print the whole date if that matches (ie skip printing +year for dates that are "this year", but also skip the whole date +itself if it's in the last few days and we can just say what weekday +it was). ++ `--date=unix` shows the date as a Unix epoch timestamp (seconds since 1970). As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local` has no effect.
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