There's no way to do this short of "%ad" and --date=short, but that limits you to having a single date format in the output. This would possibly be better done with something more like "%ad(short)". Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- pretty.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c index 493edb0..c532c17 100644 --- a/pretty.c +++ b/pretty.c @@ -727,6 +727,9 @@ static size_t format_person_part(struct strbuf *sb, char part, case 'I': /* date, ISO 8601 strict */ strbuf_addstr(sb, show_ident_date(&s, DATE_MODE(ISO8601_STRICT))); return placeholder_len; + case 's': + strbuf_addstr(sb, show_ident_date(&s, DATE_MODE(SHORT))); + return placeholder_len; } skip: -- 2.10.0.566.g5365f87