From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:11:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug in git-log --date=short --pretty=format:"%ad"
Message-ID: <7vd4n6wji9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805281535560.8172@adsl.cgsecurity.org>

Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org> writes:

> According to the git-log man page, we can configure how date are
> displayed:
>
> --date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc}
>   Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format,
>   such as when using "--pretty".
>
> But it doesn't work when a user supplied format is used:

Sorry, in theory, perhaps they could, but it doesn't and it never did.
The output is working as designed and intended.

You probably could send a patch to add %aT and %cT that are defined as
"author/committer date in the format specified with --date=<this> option";
but "%ad" and "%cd" are defined to emit "author/committer date always in
the default format".