Re: git annotate with date option not working?
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 12:16:38PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:20:37AM +0200, Chengwei Ding wrote:
>
> > can anyone confirm that this "--date" option is working for git
> > annotate cmd.
>
> This is by design:
>
> $ git show 31653c1abc1ac80206db9efca56ff1969150d8fe
> Author: Eugene Letuchy <eugene@facebook.com>
> Date: Fri Feb 20 14:51:11 2009 -0800
> [...]
> git annotate ignores the date format specifiers and continues to
> uses the ISO format, as before.
> [...]
> + if (cmd_is_annotate) {
> output_option |= OUTPUT_ANNOTATE_COMPAT;
> + blame_date_mode = DATE_ISO8601;
> + } else {
> + blame_date_mode = revs.date_mode;
> + }
>
> The annotate command is a historical artifact, and will remain frozen in
> time in terms of output format and features. If you want to use newer
> features, use "git blame". If you really need the annotate output format
> with newer blame features, use "git blame -c".Having said that, this would be really easy to support, and I don't think would have any negative compatibility consequences, as long as we don't support blame.date. But I don't think we're breaking anybody relying on "git annotate --date=whatever" being silently ignored, as that option has never done anything useful.
The patch would look like this:
diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index 26a5d42..274a98d 100644
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -2333,7 +2333,10 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
git_config(git_blame_config, NULL);
init_revisions(&revs, NULL);
- revs.date_mode = blame_date_mode;
+ if (cmd_is_annotate)
+ revs.date_mode = DATE_ISO8601;
+ else
+ revs.date_mode = blame_date_mode;
DIFF_OPT_SET(&revs.diffopt, ALLOW_TEXTCONV);
save_commit_buffer = 0;
@@ -2368,13 +2371,10 @@ parse_done:
if (revs_file && read_ancestry(revs_file))
die_errno("reading graft file '%s' failed", revs_file);
- if (cmd_is_annotate) {
+ if (cmd_is_annotate)
output_option |= OUTPUT_ANNOTATE_COMPAT;
- blame_date_mode = DATE_ISO8601;
- } else {
- blame_date_mode = revs.date_mode;
- }
+ blame_date_mode = revs.date_mode;
/* The maximum width used to show the dates */
switch (blame_date_mode) {
case DATE_RFC2822: