Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] date: make "local" orthogonal to date format

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OK by me. Thanks, I also forgot that need for preparatory code movement.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:33:08PM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
>
>> > Even in --date=raw, we do show the timezone offset, so I do not
>> > necessarily agree that raw-local is nonsensical.  That's the only
>> > difference between the one I queued yesterday and this one.
>>
>> I suspect it depends on the interpretation of "raw"; the code currently
>> interprets raw to mean "exactly what exists in the commit/tag", in which
>> case converting it to the local timezone is wrong.  But the
>> documentation describes "raw" as "the raw Git %s %z format", and if we
>> interpret it to mean "Git's internal date format" then "raw-local" makes
>> sense.
>>
>> The alternative would be the patch below as a preparatory step.
>
> Ah, right, I forgot that we need to refactor show_date() to actually do
> the right thing.
>
> I think I'd be in favor of just disallowing "raw-local", then.
>
> -Peff
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