From: Dietmar Winkler Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:33:30 GMT Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH 2/2] pretty.c: allow date formats in user format strings Message-ID: <4D79DE5A.9060700@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20110310223148.GD15828@sigill.intra.peff.net> Den 10. mars 2011 23:31, skrev Jeff King: > OK. Do you want me to throw away the %ad(format) patch for now, then, in > favor of building it on top of a more sane syntax? > > I had originally planned to do %ad(format) for now, and then worry about > syntax later. Since we already have a variety of of other placeholders > with similar syntax (e.g., %w(), %C()). But I don't care too much either > way; it is not a feature I personally wanted, so delay doesn't bother > me. Dietmar (the original requestor) may feel differently, of course. :) As much as I would like to have such a feature (and a documentation that is in synch with the implementation ;) I don't heavily rely on it. I'm happy to wait a bit longer in favour of a more complete and clean implementation which also opens up for other %(longname:options) support. -- Dietmar.