From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:29:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --format=pretty: new modifiers cID, cIS, CIY
Message-ID: <7vabmk8dd4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <96032.15671.qm@web39506.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Tommy Thorn <tt1729@yahoo.com> writes:

> [resent, sorry]
>
> --- Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I think we would very much prefer, instead of
>> piling hacks on top of the originally supported 
>> "minimum set", to introduce a truly extensible 
>> syntax, like:
>
> I concur, but pretty-please make it a super set of 
> date(1) to the extent possible. It will lessen the 
> confusion. 
>
> Maybe something like "%c(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M) ...", eg.
> such
> that if `date +<format>' is legal, so is
> "%c(<format>)".

Please read what you are replying to again.  If you said the
above with %cT(...), it might have made some sense (but then how
are you differentiate between local and original timezone?), but
%c(...) needs to show not just the timestamp.