Re: [RFC PATCH v2] shortlog: add group-by options for year and month

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2022, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID: <Y0ChLlG+iOI3li6L@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <Yz93RjrJ00A5QvNe.jacob@initialcommit.io>

On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:48:06PM -0700, Jacob Stopak wrote:

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> > The date thing I think can be done with --date; I just sent a sketch in
> > another part of the thread.
>
> Peff - I applied your --date sketch onto Taylor's patch and it worked
> first try.

Yeah; I think that allowing the `--date` argument (similar to how `git log` treats an option by the same name) is sensible, albeit slightly less flexible than the proposed `%(authordate:format=%Y-%m)`.

For what it's worth, I don't have anything against the latter (other than that it is slightly redundant in many cases with `--date`), but it does seem easier and more worthwhile to repurpose `--date` here instead.

Thanks, Taylor