Re: git stash list shows timestamp in stead of "stash number", when setting date = local for log in config

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:56:41PM +0200, Alf Kristian St??yle wrote:
> > When doing a "git stash list" I get this strange stash record:
> > stash@{Tue Sep 15 16:28:12 2009}: WIP on master: 2262276 ...
> > 
> > I have a global config setting on log:
> > 
> > [log]
> > date = local
> > 
> > If setting the date config to default or removing the setting, the
> > stash record looks correct:
> > stash@{0}: WIP on master: 2262276 ...
> 
> The patch below implements the former. The only downside I can think of
> is if somebody is relying on "log.date" to set the output format for
> reflogs, because they really like the date version better. In that case,
> I think we should wait for them to complain (which I doubt will happen),
> and then add a log.reflogDates config option to appease them.
> 
> Shawn, reflogs are your thing. Any comments?

I agree.  I doubt anyone is relying on log.date to reformat the
output of `git reflog show` or `git stash list`, so this is probably
a reasonable change to make.  Even if they were trying to use that,
its a bug.

Care to wrap this up in a patch?
 
-- 
Shawn.