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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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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.

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Message 18 of 20 in “git log --oneline alternative with dates, times and initials”
  1. git log --oneline alternative with dates, times and initialsKyle J. McKay, Sep 29, 2016
  2. Jeff KingSep 29, 2016
  3. 1/5 pretty: allow formatting DATE_SHORTJeff King, Sep 29, 2016
  4. Jacob KellerSep 30, 2016
  5. SZEDER GáborSep 30, 2016
  6. Jacob KellerSep 30, 2016
  7. Jeff KingOct 1, 2016
  8. 3/5 graph: fix extra spaces in graph_padding_lineJeff King, Sep 29, 2016
  9. 4/5 graph: helper functions for printing commit headerJeff King, Sep 29, 2016
  10. 2/5 pretty: allow formatting names as initialsJeff King, Sep 29, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2016
  12. Jeff KingSep 29, 2016
  13. 5/5 log: add --commit-header optionJeff King, Sep 29, 2016
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2016
  15. Jeff KingSep 29, 2016
  16. Kyle J. McKaySep 29, 2016
  17. Jeff KingSep 29, 2016
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2016
  19. Jeff KingSep 29, 2016
  20. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2016

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