Re: Inconsistency between git-log documentation and behavior regarding default date format.

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 1, 2023, 11:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Y9pSWCS1BNkHt+Mw@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <8d72f484-6a72-87f9-44f1-3a38471201db@gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 02:33:49AM +0100, Andrei Rybak wrote:

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> Indeed, the description of the option (which comes from
> Documentation/rev-list-options.txt) doesn't describe all differences
> between --date=default and --date=rfc2822.
> 
> A fuller list could be:
> 
>     * There is no comma after the day-of-week
>     * The time zone is omitted when the local time zone is used
>     * Day-of-month and month are switched around
>     * Time-of-day and the year are switched around
> 
> CC'ing Peff, who wrote the list of exceptions in add00ba2de (date: make
> "local" orthogonal to date format, 2015-09-03).

I don't think I had any particular reason to omit those other differences. I probably just didn't notice them. Patches welcome.

-Peff