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