Re: [PATCH 1/3] log: Show reflog date with --date=normal

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2009, 17:05 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr5w07n6p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1e2f7d731286d99b74cc9af37beb5fe187e9d460.1248770042.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> The reflog case special-cases --date=default (internally DATE_NORMAL)
> to show the entry number instead of a date.  This means it is
> impossible to show the default date format for the reflog entries.

Isn't it the other way around?  Traditionally you wrote

    $ git show -g @{0}
    $ git show -g @{now}

to explicitly ask for either time or number, but without @{which}, the presense of --date=<foo> for some unknown reason declares that you want time for reflogs, too. I personally think that is an insane behaviour, but that is probably already stuck in people's fingers.

    $ git show -g --date=short master
    $ git show -g --date=short master@{0}
    $ git show -g --date=short master@{now}
    
I think what is broken, if anything, is the second case (i.e. with --date,
you cannot even ask for entry numbers).

You can get times in default date formats just fine.