From: Tommy Thorn <tt1729@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:16:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] --format=pretty: new modifiers cID, cIS, CIY
Message-ID: <96032.15671.qm@web39506.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vir188ej4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

[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>)".

Tommy


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