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From: "Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@cox.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Stephen P . Smith" <ischis2@cox.net>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Add 'human' date format documentation
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 17:31:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181231003150.8031-3-ischis2@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181231003150.8031-1-ischis2@cox.net>

Display date and time information in a format similar to how people
write dates in other contexts. If the year isn't specified then, the
reader infers the date is given is in the current year.

By not displaying the redundant information, the reader concentrates
on the information that is different. The patch reports relative dates
based on information inferred from the date on the machine running the
git command at the time the command is executed.

While the format is more useful to humans by dropping inferred
information, there is nothing that makes it actually human. If the
'relative' date format wasn't already implemented then using
'relative' would have been appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
---
 Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index bab5f50b17..b491c3b999 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -835,6 +835,14 @@ Note that the `-local` option does not affect the seconds-since-epoch
 value (which is always measured in UTC), but does switch the accompanying
 timezone value.
 +
+`--date=human` shows the timezone if it matches the current time-zone,
+and doesn't print the whole date if that matches (ie skip printing
+year for dates that are "this year", but also skip the whole date
+itself if it's in the last few days and we can just say what weekday
+it was).
++
+`--date=auto` defaults to human if we're using the pager.
++
 `--date=unix` shows the date as a Unix epoch timestamp (seconds since
 1970).  As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local`
 has no effect.
-- 
2.20.1.2.gb21ebb671b


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-31  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-31  0:31 [PATCH 0/3] Add 'human' date format Stephen P. Smith
2018-12-31  0:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-03  7:37   ` Jeff King
2019-01-03 13:19     ` Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-04  7:50       ` Jeff King
2019-01-04 13:03         ` Stephen P Smith
2019-01-06  6:19           ` Jeff King
2018-12-31  0:31 ` Stephen P. Smith [this message]
2018-12-31  0:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] t0006-date.sh: add `human` date format tests Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-02 18:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-03  2:36     ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2019-01-03  6:42       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-03 13:20         ` Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-03 21:14     ` Philip Oakley
2019-01-03 21:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-03 23:57         ` Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-03  7:44   ` Jeff King
2019-01-03 13:12     ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2019-01-08 21:27   ` Johannes Sixt
2019-01-09  0:44     ` Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-09  6:58       ` Johannes Sixt
2019-01-10  1:50         ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2019-01-18  6:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Re-roll of 'human' date format patch set Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-18  6:18   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] Add 'human' date format Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-18  6:18   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] Remove the proposed use of auto as secondary way to specify human Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-18 18:35     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-19  3:44       ` Stephen & Linda Smith
2019-01-18  6:18   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] Add 'human' date format documentation Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-18 18:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-18  6:18   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] Add `human` format to test-tool Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-18 19:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-20 22:11       ` Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-22 18:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-18  6:18   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] Add `human` date format tests Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-18 19:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-21  5:31   ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Re-roll of 'human' date format patch set Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:31     ` [PATCH v3 1/5] Add 'human' date format Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:31     ` [PATCH v3 2/5] Replace the proposed 'auto' mode with 'auto:' Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:31     ` [PATCH v3 3/5] Add 'human' date format documentation Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:31     ` [PATCH v3 4/5] Add `human` format to test-tool Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-22 22:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-01-21  5:31     ` [PATCH v3 5/5] Add `human` date format tests Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-29  3:50     ` [PATCH v4 0/5] Re-roll of 'human' date format patch set Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-29  3:50       ` [PATCH v4 1/5] Add 'human' date format Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-29  3:50       ` [PATCH v4 2/5] Replace the proposed 'auto' mode with 'auto:' Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-29  3:50       ` [PATCH v4 3/5] Add 'human' date format documentation Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-29  3:50       ` [PATCH v4 4/5] Add `human` format to test-tool Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-29  3:50       ` [PATCH v4 5/5] Add `human` date format tests Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:16 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Re-roll of 'human' date format patch set Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:16   ` [PATCH v3 1/5] Add 'human' date format Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:16   ` [PATCH v3 2/5] Replace the proposed 'auto' mode with 'auto:' Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:16   ` [PATCH v3 3/5] Add 'human' date format documentation Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:16   ` [PATCH v3 4/5] Add `human` format to test-tool Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21  5:16   ` [PATCH v3 5/5] Add `human` date format tests Stephen P. Smith
2019-01-21 15:04     ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-01-22  0:53       ` Stephen & Linda Smith

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