Re: [PATCH] Make git blame date output format configurable, a la git log

> Hi Johannes,
>
> Thanks for your feedback. Any comments on the .c changes?
>
> I'll modify the commit message to read as follows:
> """
>
> Add the following:
>    - git config value blame.date that expects one of the git log date
>      formats ({relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short})
>    - git blame command line option --date-format expects one of the git
>      log date formats ({relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short})
>    - documentation in blame-options.txt
>    - git blame uses the appropriate date.c functions and enums to
>      make sense of the date format and provide appropriate data
>
> The tests pass. The mailmap test needed to be modified to expect iso
> formatted blames rather than the new "default".
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Letuchy<eugene@facebook.com>
> """
>
> -Eugene
>
> + cc: junio
>
> On 2/20/09 5:40 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Disclaimer: if you are offended by constructive criticism, or likely to
>> answer with insults to the comments I offer, please stop reading this mail
>> now (and please to not answer my mail, either). :-)
>>
>> Still with me?  Good.  Nice to meet you.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity: why Cc: Marius?  I would have expected Junio, Git's
>> maintainer.
>>
>> May I suggest the commit subject to say "as for git log"?  I mistook "a la
>> git log" for a change in the way git-blame works...
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, eletuchy@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> From: Eugene Letuchy<eugene@facebook.com>
>>>
>>> Adds the following:
>> We try to use the imperative form; from my experience it makes for an
>> easier read: "Add the following:"
>>
>>>    - git config value blame.date that expects one of the git log date
>>>      formats ({relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short})
>>>    - git blame command line option --date-format expects one of the git
>>>      log date formats ({relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short})
>>>    - documentation in blame-options.txt
>>>    - git blame uses the appropriate date.c functions and enums to
>>>      make sense of the date format and provide appropriate data
>>>
>>> The tests pass. The mailmap test needed to be modified to expect iso
>>> formatted blames rather than the new "default".
>> IMHO the "The tests pass." should be removed.
>>
>> Other than that, nicely done!
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Dscho
>>