From: Miles Bader Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:47:10 GMT Subject: Re: orthogonal cases of log --date option Message-ID: <87bpsffmn5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> In-Reply-To: <20090305104304.GA17760@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > git log --local-dates --date=default > > This makes the interface simpler to understand: --date remains a > selector, and --date=local is a special case that new people don't need > to think about or understand. I agree, a separate option is more clear. I suppose (as Junio later commented) that an explicit "--date-tz" option might be cool too, though I suppose 99% of the time, people would only ever specify "--date-tz=local" or "--date-gz=gmt"... [one use-case I can think of for a more general option would be if you want to see a log from somebody else's point of view ... "when was john in san francisco doing all that hacking?"] -Miles -- The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. -- Will Durant