From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:41:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] date: make "local" orthogonal to date format
Message-ID: <xmqq37ywoh0x.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150831204831.GB10338@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> +	/* historical alias */
> +	if (!strcmp(format, "local"))
> +		format = "default-local";
> +
> +	mode->type = parse_date_type(format, &p);
> +	mode->local = 0;
> +
> +	if (skip_prefix(p, "-local", &p)) {
> +		if (mode->type == DATE_RELATIVE)
> +			die("relative-local date format is nonsensical");
> +		mode->local = 1;
> +	}

I notice that we give something funny like this:

    $ git show --date=short-locale
    fatal: unknown date-mode modifier: e

What is the intention here?  In other words, what kind of things can
plausibly follow "--date=short-local" in enhanced versions of Git in
the future?  "--date=short-local:some other magic"?