From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:41:56 GMT
Subject: Re: git log use of date format differs between Command Line and script usage.
Message-ID: <7e7c7d22-36e2-20f4-0cfc-8cfe37d9a409@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <CADHEqX_fiUhnpn6WAFrbDaNJTb1Vbom7Ndn-n6WmQ0gkQ69ZeA@mail.gmail.com>

Am 30.06.2017 um 18:06 schrieb Shaun Uldrikis:
> If you supply a non-standard format to the date configuration for git
> log, something like:
> [log]
>          date = format:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M
> 
> then, when you run 'git log' inside a script, or when using gitk
> (anywhere), it fails on decoding the format.
> 
> fatal: unknown date format format: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M
> 
> 
> However, that format works correctly on the command line.
> I do not have a patch to address this issue.

I guess you have two versions of git on your system, and the one used in
scripts is older than 2.6.0, which introduced this feature.

René