From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.6 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EDAE207EC for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934559AbcI2RiU (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:38:20 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:55454 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934267AbcI2RiS (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:38:18 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EED40C33; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:38:16 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=YqFnETRuO4r22roCNi2WKfc2k8I=; b=TQAlHB dNQO7gADOGXfIY6uYAe2e+A7I6xhWOfUXyWgoOKmOcODamazpnewMX6WieudhgHH uFYW276/xucapNIWpKmRKcvGZ/TszToO6KAFoAZqDOdTYBJChLyYANKshRo9ExDq Plz/2ehgXU13O/HAN//rmMS6RjfgDABRrBhQM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=kLxYLIINPJo/wvWl6KtvCOoMfZT7m3No VNAK0N6cjbzL2ToHkbChGbT2fuEiZfWLq96K4CWIABCm+1rDs0o3pdK1wFh5LBnz rzXexvL2FmCAlvKW9pO3wINCD7qwKXbHRd2kiYedh7Dv58B0tQ1+E+cnd/n0LgAW h9gEX+KE+0k= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF6F40C31; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:38:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.0.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 60D3C40C30; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:38:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: "Kyle J. McKay" , Git mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] git log --oneline alternative with dates, times and initials References: <20160929083315.vwb3aurwbyjwlkjn@sigill.intra.peff.net> <82EE6519-E58F-4382-87A5-55D9D1BBDCA9@gmail.com> <20160929125238.hifkxe7cmyebg64u@sigill.intra.peff.net> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:38:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20160929125238.hifkxe7cmyebg64u@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 29 Sep 2016 08:52:38 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 80EE6740-866B-11E6-B4F9-EAAE7A1B28F4-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King writes: >> Those patches are missing some of the features like showing root commits, >> handling two letter initials, showing the weekday, inserting a break where >> needed to avoid parent-child confusion in graph output and properly handling >> Duy's initials. :) > > I'm not too surprised. I literally looked at the first screenshot from > your output and thought "surely git can do that with some minor tweaks". > Nor am I surprised that there are cases where the output is funny (99% > of the time I spent on it was tracking down that graph-padding bug). > > I have no problem taking this in contrib or whatever, until a point when > Git is capable of doing the same thing itself. I just hoped to trick you > into working on Git. :) I thought we stopped adding random things to contrib/, though. Unlike the earlier days of Git, if a custom command that uses Git is very userful, it can live its own life and flourish within the much larger Git userbase we have these days.