Thx Peff, this really helps. So then doc on this cmd is outdated. Have
been used to emacs build-in vc which call annotate (rumor say it will
support git blame), anyway, have switch to other emacs git plugin now.
Thanks
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å Jun 1, 2011ï18:16ïJeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> åéï
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:20:37AM +0200, Chengwei Ding wrote:
>
>> can anyone confirm that this "--date" option is working for git
>> annotate cmd.
>
> This is by design:
>
> $ git show 31653c1abc1ac80206db9efca56ff1969150d8fe
> Author: Eugene Letuchy <eugene@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Feb 20 14:51:11 2009 -0800
> [...]
> git annotate ignores the date format specifiers and continues to
> uses the ISO format, as before.
> [...]
> + if (cmd_is_annotate) {
> output_option |= OUTPUT_ANNOTATE_COMPAT;
> + blame_date_mode = DATE_ISO8601;
> + } else {
> + blame_date_mode = revs.date_mode;
> + }
>
> The annotate command is a historical artifact, and will remain frozen in
> time in terms of output format and features. If you want to use newer
> features, use "git blame". If you really need the annotate output format
> with newer blame features, use "git blame -c".
>
> -Peff
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