From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:41:19 GMT
Subject: Re: pretty placeholders for reflog entries
Message-ID: <7v8vnr1oww.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111107224556.GA28188@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It would be a little nicer to provide explicit date placeholders, but we
> can't quite make them match the author-date specifiers, because "gd" is
> taken.  We could add %gt, %gr, etc. But in the long run, I'd like to
> move to considering most of %ar, %at, etc to be historical, and have
> something like "%ad(short)" be the official way of picking different
> date formats[1]. And then the reflog placeholders could learn
> "%gt(short)". So making more reflog placeholders right now just feels
> like cluttering a namespace I'd like to get changed eventually.

I tend to agree with the direction.

As we are not adding anything new before the 1.7.8 final, I'd rather ask
you to hold onto this and other changes in your footnote, instead of
having me to carry them in 'pu', which is an integration branch even less
official than it would otherwise be during the freeze period.