Re: Gnome chose Git

From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 19, 2009, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID: <9b18b3110903191459q23af2bf9q998de27feb8dae2a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090319215331.GW23521@spearce.org>

2009/3/19 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:

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> demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/3/19 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>:
>> > "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > git log -g branch@{now}
>>
>> Ah! Much nicer! Thanks.
>>
>> Is there by any chance any way to set the date format it uses to
>> something more suitable for machine processing?
>
> I don't think so.  If you want to machine process it, why not
> just read the reflog directly?  Its a really simple format.

Mostly my problem with that is that it violates the abstraction. If i update git and the reflog format changes my script breaks. I dont necessarily know where it will be located, etc. And while no doubt i can reverse engineer the format, well, who knows maybe Ill miss something important, I mean is it documented anywhere?

So i guess if the format were documented (and thus changing it would break compatibility and be noted in the changes file) then it would be fine to do so, but it seems to me making a way to access the reflog data in a structured way via a plumbing level command makes more sense. (At the very least this abstract the user of having to figure out where the log is stored).

Yves

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