From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:04:43 GMT
Subject: Re: How pretty is pretty? git cat-file -p inconsistency
Message-ID: <7v62k0wudg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E8EBC00.90909@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> That is, "cat file -p" pretty prints dates for tag objects but not for
> commit objects. In fact, "-p" on commit objects does not prettify at all
> compared to the raw content. Is that intentional?

"cat-file -p" is an ill-conceived half-ass afterthought, and I do not
think anybody sane considers it as part of the "plumbing" ultra stable
interface for machine consumption. See a0f15fa (Pretty-print tagger
dates., 2006-03-01).

> I'd suggest
> prettifying dates with "-p" for commit objects also.

Please make it so. It is your choice to do a patch to update this single
thing first, or to discuss the output with "-p" for all the other object
types at the same time to get the list concensus before proceeding.

Thanks.