Re: [PATCH] show_date(): rename the "relative" parameter to "mode"

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 23:09 UTC
Message-ID: <7vslcrb3l8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702272322590.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> Side note: one of the reasons I like having more fine-grained date flags 
>> is that I've occasionally wanted a "show in UTC time" or "show 
>> everything in *my* local time" option.
>
> I found the --relative-date option very useful to that end, if a bit long 
> to type.

How about --ago as a synonym, and --my-date for obeying TZ? "show in UTC time" can be had by something like:

	$ TZ=UTC git log --my-date

I personally am not very happy that "reflog show @{now}" gives relative date and not the full datestamp.