On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 04:14:14AM -0400, Phil Pennock wrote: > The reflog contains timestamp information, but these were not exposed to > `--pretty`. Four of the six author/committer format string > second-letters were still available and copied, but `d`/`D` are taken > for reflog selector formatting. So use `%gT` for "time" instead of > "date" mnemonic for using `--date=...` formatting. Hrm. Since Ted was not cc'd, it is not clear to me whether this is coincidental or in response to the thread over in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/299201 To summarize, I think the conclusion there was that we would go with at least the 't' and 'r' formatters in the short term. The 'i/I' ones were not something Ted cared about that much, I think, but they do make things orthogonal with the other ident dates. Your '%gT' seems like a nice idea in principle, though I'm not sure it is all that useful due to the way that --date impacts %gd. In other words: git log -g --format=%gd --date=rfc will already respect --date (albeit with "ref@{...}" wrapped around it). But even with your patch, you cannot do: git log -g --format="%gd %gT" --date=rfc to get "HEAD@{0} ...rfc-date...", because the presence of "--date" is the trigger to switch the meaning of "%gd". So the final solution is more like: - a formatter for just the reflog time, respecting date - a formatter for just the reflog index (the "0" in HEAD@{0}) - a formatter for the ref name (just the "HEAD" in HEAD@{0}) And I'm not sure if we want to do that now with a bunch of arcane two-letter placeholders, or wait for a refactoring where they can get more readable names like %(reflog-index). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html