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From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: several date related issues
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:56:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150625145659.09285538@pc09.procura.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150625124445.GA18395@peff.net>

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On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:44:45 -0400, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:19:01PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> 
> > *** Dates do not respect LC_TIME
> 
> Right, we use our own routines for formatting the dates, and not
> strftime. And it probably should stay that way in general, as git's
> output is often meant to be parsed.
> 
> That being said, I do not think it would be wrong to have a date-mode
> that just showed strftime("%c"), or some other arbitrary strftime
> string.  You could then set log.date as appropriate for human
> consumption.

Yes please :)

 --date=lc
 --date=lc_time
 --date=locale

all spring to mind as valid options

> > *** git log --date-order and --author-date-order do not order by date
> 
> Correct. The documentation says:
> 
>    --date-order
>      Show no parents before all of its children are shown, but otherwise
>      show commits in the commit timestamp order.
> 
> In your example, one commit is the parent of the other, so it hits the
> first part of the sentence, and the dates are never even compared.

That is what I gathered, and concluded that the option name is
misleading

> There is not a simple way to show commits in arbitrary order without
> respect to parentage. I think you'd have to do something like:
> 
>   git log --format='%at %H' |
>   sort -rn |
>   cut -d' ' -f2 |
>   git log --stdin --no-walk

I'd like that as gitk option!

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-25 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-25 11:19 several date related issues H.Merijn Brand
2015-06-25 12:44 ` Jeff King
2015-06-25 12:56   ` H.Merijn Brand [this message]
2015-06-25 16:53     ` [PATCH 0/3] localized date format Jeff King
2015-06-25 16:54       ` [PATCH 1/3] show-branch: use DATE_RELATIVE instead of magic number Jeff King
2015-06-25 16:55       ` [PATCH 2/3] convert "enum date_mode" into a struct Jeff King
2015-06-25 17:03         ` John Keeping
2015-06-25 17:22           ` Jeff King
2015-07-07 20:37         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-07 20:48           ` Jeff King
2015-07-07 21:05             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-07 21:13               ` Jeff King
2015-07-07 21:19                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-25 16:55       ` [PATCH 3/3] introduce "format" date-mode Jeff King
2015-06-29 22:22         ` Eric Sunshine
2015-06-30 10:20           ` Jeff King
2015-06-30 16:22             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-30 17:50               ` Jeff King
2015-06-30 19:23                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-30 19:33                   ` Jeff King
2015-06-30 16:58             ` Eric Sunshine
2015-06-30 17:58               ` Jeff King
2015-06-30 18:13                 ` Eric Sunshine
2015-06-30 19:22                   ` Jeff King
2015-06-30 17:05             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-30 17:48               ` Eric Sunshine
2015-06-30 19:17               ` Jeff King
2015-06-30 13:26           ` Jeff King
2015-06-30 17:05             ` Eric Sunshine
2015-07-21  0:41             ` Eric Sunshine
2015-07-21  1:19               ` Jeff King

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