SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> @@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ The placeholders are:
> - '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
> - '%ai': author date, ISO 8601-like format
> - '%aI': author date, strict ISO 8601 format
> +- '%as': author date, short format
> +- '%aR': author date, raw format
Hmmm, are these two a good things the only ones that are missing?
It makes me wonder if it's time for us to move to a more extensible
format, e.g. "%aT(...)", in which 'T' stands for 'timestamp' and the
part in the parentheses can be any format string that is understood
by "log --date=<format>" [*1*]. Once we have something like that,
we can keep the existing ones for historical convenience, stop
adding new ones [*2*] and do not have to worry about these two
mechanisms going out of sync.
Also, "%at" is almost there as a replacement for "%aR"; what we are
missing really is "%aZ" for zone offset. If we had "%aZ", we do not
need "%aR", as that is "%at %aZ".
[Footnote]
*1* Yes, and in longer term, we should really aim to unify the
for-each-ref format and "--pretty=format:" format. "%aT(...)"
is probably a step in a wrong direction, and it should probably
be more like "%(authordate:...)".
*2* Because we have "%ad", we _can_ stop adding new ones already.
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