Re: [PATCH] rev-list: clarify git-log default date format
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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>> That is
>>
>> The default format `--date=default` shows a single line with
>> three-letter day of the week, three-letter month, day-of-month,
>> hour-minute-second in the "HH:MM:SS" format, followed by 4-digit
>> year, plus timezone information unless the local time zone is
>> used (e.g. "Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +0000").
>>
>> or something like that.
>
> I think that following such a description in prose is still more
> confusing than just showing an example. E.g. we could say:
>
> Assuming a user in timezone +0200 (Central Europe) values of
Add "on day X at time Y" here, and I'd buy that ;-)
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> these `--date` argument would produce:
>
> |---------------+--------------------------------|
> | rfc2822 | Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:13:13 -0700 |
> | rfc2822-local | Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:13:13 +0200 |
> | default | Thu Apr 7 15:13:13 2005 -0700 |
> | default-local | Fri Apr 8 00:13:13 2005 |
> |---------------+--------------------------------|
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>