From: Dragan Simic Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 17:52:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] bugreport: add 'seconds' to default outfile name Message-ID: <438a5edf1a17ffac201436a950ce50fa@manjaro.org> In-Reply-To: On 2023-10-14 19:45, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Dragan Simic writes: > >> How about making the filename a bit shorter first, to make room for >> the additional two digits, so the example mentioned above would end up >> being named "git-bugreport-20231014-092037.txt"? > > The reason I stated not to unconditionally add two more digits is > *not* that I wanted to keep things shorter. I wanted to keep names > stable and in the same shape as before for sensible people who spend > more than 60 seconds---only those who produce more than one within > the same minute will be affected. > > What is your reason to want to make the filename shoter first? > It would break everybody, wouldn't it? Please note that I haven't researched in detail what else depends on the current filename format, which presumably is a whole bunch of stuff, I just suggested this filename compaction because I understood that the filename length was becoming an issue. Speaking in general, I somehow find "20220712" a bit more readable than "2022-07-12" as part of a filename, but that's of course just my personal preference.