From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:43:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Use %as and %cs as pretty format flags
Message-ID: <32541b130808282043v5516e95ai49f928aeefb75fdd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7viqtkd84s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I was actually thinking about rejecting this, asking for something that
> allows to express all the other %[ai][dDri] format can express, and
> perhaps more.  So I think "%ad(short)" is a good direction to go, except
> that 'd' is already taken.  Perhaps %a(date), %a(shortdate,local),...?

These format strings are getting increasingly complicated without
really gaining much in generality.  Why not
"%ad(strftime-compatible-format-string)" ?  You could differentiate
localtime vs. gmtime with %ad vs. %aD, or something like that.

Have fun,

Avery