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

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 23:53 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702271548030.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702280010020.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> 
> If you use "next" Git:
> 
> 	$ git log --pretty=format:"%h %ad %an"

Well, that has the long-format date, which really isn't appropriate for a one-liner format.

It's one of the reasons I agreed with your show_date() changes: I think our date output formats are fairly limited. I love the long date format, but if I want to show a commit name and author name and email on the same line, no way can we use 30+ characters for just the date.

So the part about the GNU ChangeLog format I like is the single-line header thing.. Right now, the choice between "--pretty=xxx" choices is "oneline", "short", "medium", and there's something lacking there in between ("terse").

The "format:" thing certainly gives us more options to play with, though.

			Linus