Re: [PATCH/RFC] git log --oneline alternative with dates, times and initials
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Sep 29, 2016, 17:38 UTC
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- <20160929125238.hifkxe7cmyebg64u@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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>> Those patches are missing some of the features like showing root commits, >> handling two letter initials, showing the weekday, inserting a break where >> needed to avoid parent-child confusion in graph output and properly handling >> Duy's initials. :) > > I'm not too surprised. I literally looked at the first screenshot from > your output and thought "surely git can do that with some minor tweaks". > Nor am I surprised that there are cases where the output is funny (99% > of the time I spent on it was tracking down that graph-padding bug). > > I have no problem taking this in contrib or whatever, until a point when > Git is capable of doing the same thing itself. I just hoped to trick you > into working on Git. :)
I thought we stopped adding random things to contrib/, though.
Unlike the earlier days of Git, if a custom command that uses Git is very userful, it can live its own life and flourish within the much larger Git userbase we have these days.