Re: [PATCH 2/2] --date=relative falls back to "short" format for commits older than a year

>
> Subject: Support 'raw' date format
>
> Talking about --date, one thing I wanted for the 1234567890 date was to
> get things in the raw format. Sure, you get them with --pretty=raw, but it
> felt a bit sad that you couldn't just ask for the date in raw format.
>
> So here's a throw-away patch (meaning: I won't be re-sending it, because I
> really don't think it's a big deal) to add "--date=raw". It just prints
> out the internal raw git format - seconds since epoch plus timezone (put
> another way: 'date +"%s %z"' format)
>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>
> Not a whole lot of testing. But
>
>        git show --date=raw v2.6.29-rc5
>
> works correctly.
>
>  Documentation/rev-list-options.txt |    4 +++-
>  cache.h                            |    3 ++-
>  date.c                             |    7 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git i/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt w/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> index b9f6e4d..5076322 100644
> --- i/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> +++ w/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[]
>
>        Synonym for `--date=relative`.
>
> ---date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}::
> +--date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short,raw}::
>
>        Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such
>        as when using "--pretty". `log.date` config variable sets a default
> @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ format, often found in E-mail messages.
>  +
>  `--date=short` shows only date but not time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` format.
>  +
> +`--date=raw` shows the date in the internal raw git format `%s %z` format.
> ++
>  `--date=default` shows timestamps in the original timezone
>  (either committer's or author's).
>
> diff --git i/cache.h w/cache.h
> index 21a6310..189151d 100644
> --- i/cache.h
> +++ w/cache.h
> @@ -696,7 +696,8 @@ enum date_mode {
>        DATE_SHORT,
>        DATE_LOCAL,
>        DATE_ISO8601,
> -       DATE_RFC2822
> +       DATE_RFC2822,
> +       DATE_RAW
>  };
>
>  const char *show_date(unsigned long time, int timezone, enum date_mode mode);
> diff --git i/date.c w/date.c
> index 950b88f..d75dff4 100644
> --- i/date.c
> +++ w/date.c
> @@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ const char *show_date(unsigned long time, int tz, enum date_mode mode)
>        struct tm *tm;
>        static char timebuf[200];
>
> +       if (mode == DATE_RAW) {
> +               snprintf(timebuf, sizeof(timebuf), "%lu %+05d", time, tz);
> +               return timebuf;
> +       }
> +
>        if (mode == DATE_RELATIVE) {
>                unsigned long diff;
>                struct timeval now;
> @@ -615,6 +620,8 @@ enum date_mode parse_date_format(const char *format)
>                return DATE_LOCAL;
>        else if (!strcmp(format, "default"))
>                return DATE_NORMAL;
> +       else if (!strcmp(format, "raw"))
> +               return DATE_RAW;
>        else
>                die("unknown date format %s", format);
>  }
>