# [PATCH] cg-mkpatch: Show human-readable dates

3 messages from 2005-04-26 to 2005-04-26. Participants: Jonas Fonseca, Petr Baudis.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/343

## Jonas Fonseca, 2005-04-26 23:27

Subject: [PATCH] cg-mkpatch: Show human-readable dates
Message-ID: <20050426232729.GE28560@diku.dk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050426232729.GE28560%40diku.dk

```
Use the approach from from cg-log to show author and commit date
in a human-readable format.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>

---
commit e9f5d35741f92d64945a072759450b1c43b2b6e4
tree 01bda4c4ac0c3b938fb4e7954193f2441554acfb
parent e5eb91b0a47e1169006034af434312c7f38dc902
author Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:24:31 +0200
committer Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:24:31 +0200

 cg-mkpatch |   34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: cg-mkpatch
===================================================================
--- bd580d135661ff0bc8eb32cb36025cd1e7bdda13/cg-mkpatch  (mode:100755 sha1:25c67a29296730daeac00e43fd4c18cf914a1c87)
+++ 01bda4c4ac0c3b938fb4e7954193f2441554acfb/cg-mkpatch  (mode:100755 sha1:efee5dc887677d3122d8630b9ee3ef396b7adbd3)
@@ -12,15 +12,31 @@
 showpatch () {
 	header=$(mktemp -t gitpatch.XXXXXX)
 	id=$1
-	cat-file commit $id | while read line; do
-		if [ ! "$line" ]; then
-			cat
-			echo
-			echo ---
-			echo commit $id
-			cat $header
-		fi
-		echo $line >>$header
+	cat-file commit $id | while read key rest; do
+		case "$key" in
+		"author"|"committer")
+			date=(${rest#*> })
+			sec=${date[0]}; tz=${date[1]}
+			dtz=${tz/+/}
+			lsec=$(expr $dtz / 100 \* 3600 + $dtz % 100 \* 60 + $sec)
+			pdate="$(date -Rud "1970-01-01 UTC + $lsec sec" 2>/dev/null)"
+			if [ "$pdate" ]; then
+				echo $key $rest | sed "s/>.*/> ${pdate/+0000/$tz}/" >> $header
+			else
+				echo $key $rest >> $header
+			fi
+			;;
+		"")
+			cat
+			echo
+			echo ---
+			echo commit $id
+			cat $header
+			;;
+		*)
+			echo $key $rest >>$header
+			;;
+		esac
 	done
 	echo
 	cg-diff -p -r $id > $header

-- 
Jonas Fonseca

```

## Petr Baudis, 2005-04-26 23:34

Subject: Re: [PATCH] cg-mkpatch: Show human-readable dates
Message-ID: <20050426233439.GS13224@pasky.ji.cz>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050426233439.GS13224%40pasky.ji.cz
In-Reply-To: <20050426232729.GE28560@diku.dk>

```
Dear diary, on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:27:29AM CEST, I got a letter
where Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> told me that...
> Use the approach from from cg-log to show author and commit date
> in a human-readable format.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>

That means you want this in the library. ;-)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor

```

## Jonas Fonseca, 2005-04-26 23:55

Subject: [PATCH] Move common date code to the library file
Message-ID: <20050426235532.GF28560@diku.dk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050426235532.GF28560%40diku.dk
In-Reply-To: <20050426233439.GS13224@pasky.ji.cz>

```
Move common date conversion code to showdate() library function.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>

---
commit e7ab52f0d69a45e69d78f2992c7997283855ac48
tree 01c206a9520ffa599c3ce17c901b4fce9b162b08
parent 09da825be78580e991bfd0ccbb90de15bfa18113
author Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:53:04 +0200
committer Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:53:04 +0200

 cg-Xlib    |    9 +++++++++
 cg-log     |    7 ++-----
 cg-mkpatch |    7 ++-----
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Index: cg-Xlib
===================================================================
--- 6b45f2ad7c95fa110c7e8b53dae6d099d726bd4c/cg-Xlib  (mode:100755 sha1:5d84bbdb19510b7399f39ffd920636821a37248c)
+++ 01c206a9520ffa599c3ce17c901b4fce9b162b08/cg-Xlib  (mode:100755 sha1:665b84360050e7151eb2aa34327a10821ddc9ccf)
@@ -33,6 +33,15 @@
 	$(which mktemp) $dirarg $prefix"$1"
 }
 
+showdate () {
+	date="$1"
+	sec=${date[0]}; tz=${date[1]}
+	dtz=${tz/+/}
+	lsec=$(expr $dtz / 100 \* 3600 + $dtz % 100 \* 60 + $sec)
+	pdate="$(date -Rud "1970-01-01 UTC + $lsec sec" 2>/dev/null)"
+
+	echo "${pdate/+0000/$tz}"
+}
 
 # Compatibility hacks:
 # 2005-04-26
Index: cg-log
===================================================================
--- 6b45f2ad7c95fa110c7e8b53dae6d099d726bd4c/cg-log  (mode:100755 sha1:1c53b31a956e7c8cbfe653143cc0f91df02a2f86)
+++ 01c206a9520ffa599c3ce17c901b4fce9b162b08/cg-log  (mode:100755 sha1:5d0b602d32068af0d6e958f1c9c4dd6c870a9ce1)
@@ -96,12 +96,9 @@
 				fi
 
 				date=(${rest#*> })
-				sec=${date[0]}; tz=${date[1]}
-				dtz=${tz/+/}
-				lsec=$(expr $dtz / 100 \* 3600 + $dtz % 100 \* 60 + $sec)
-				pdate="$(date -Rud "1970-01-01 UTC + $lsec sec" 2>/dev/null)"
+				pdate="$(showdate $date)"
 				if [ "$pdate" ]; then
-					echo -n $color$key $rest | sed "s/>.*/> ${pdate/+0000/$tz}/"
+					echo -n $color$key $rest | sed "s/>.*/> $pdate/"
 					echo $coldefault
 				else
 					echo $color$key $rest $coldefault
Index: cg-mkpatch
===================================================================
--- 6b45f2ad7c95fa110c7e8b53dae6d099d726bd4c/cg-mkpatch  (mode:100755 sha1:efee5dc887677d3122d8630b9ee3ef396b7adbd3)
+++ 01c206a9520ffa599c3ce17c901b4fce9b162b08/cg-mkpatch  (mode:100755 sha1:c6aa52b6c773718a64feef47a165885b684b593b)
@@ -16,12 +16,9 @@
 		case "$key" in
 			"author"|"committer")
 				date=(${rest#*> })
-				sec=${date[0]}; tz=${date[1]}
-				dtz=${tz/+/}
-				lsec=$(expr $dtz / 100 \* 3600 + $dtz % 100 \* 60 + $sec)
-				pdate="$(date -Rud "1970-01-01 UTC + $lsec sec" 2>/dev/null)"
+				pdate="$(showdate $date)"
 				if [ "$pdate" ]; then
-					echo $key $rest | sed "s/>.*/> ${pdate/+0000/$tz}/" >> $header
+					echo $key $rest | sed "s/>.*/> $pdate/" >> $header
 				else
 					echo $key $rest >> $header
 				fi

-- 
Jonas Fonseca

```