From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:11:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-blame: Make the output human readable
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0603051509480.12799@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vbqwlgkhk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> writes:
> 
> > +char* format_time(unsigned long time, const char* tz)
> > +{
> > +	static char time_buf[128];
> > +	time_t t = time;
> > +
> > +	strftime(time_buf, sizeof(time_buf), "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S ", gmtime(&t));
> > +	strcat(time_buf, tz);
> > +	return time_buf;
> > +}
> 
> I think this shows GMT with time offset, which is compatible
> with the human readable time Johannes did to git-annotate.  I do
> not know what timezone CVS annotate shows its dates offhand (it
> seems to only show dates).  Johannes, is this an attempt to
> match what CVS does?

CVS only shows the date, something like

	strftime("%Y-%b-%d", gmtime($timestamp));

> I am wondering if we want to be in line with the date formatting
> convention used for our commits and tags, that is, to show local
> timestamp with timezone.  The code to use would be show_date()
> from date.c if we go that route.

I like that approach. Sometimes imitating CVS can be overdone.

Ciao,
Dscho