On 3 February 2017 at 00:06, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Hilco Wijbenga > <hilco.wijbenga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to get the committer date printed in a custom fashion. >> Using "%cI" gets me close: >> >> $ git show --format="%cI | %an" master | head -n 1 >> 2017-01-31T17:02:13-08:00 | Hilco Wijbenga >> >> I would like to get rid of the "-08:00" bit at the end of the >> timestamp. According to the "git show" manual I should be able to use >> "%<(<N>[,trunc|ltrunc|mtrunc])" to drop that last part. >> >> $ git show --format="%<(19,trunc)cI | %an" master | head -n 1 > > You're almost there. Just insert another '%' between "trunc)" and "cI". Thank you so much! This has been bugging me. :-) Rereading "git help show", I guess it's implied I should do this but it very much wasn't clear to me (obviously). I guess I'm too used to the "%19.19s" type of approach. Maybe there should be some examples? >> How do I get "2017-01-31T17:02:13 | Hilco Wijbenga" to be output? > > You'll get an ellipsis at the end though.. (i.e. 02:13... | Hilco) Indeed, that's not very nice. I suppose I can understand the reason for it but it mostly defeats the purpose of "trunc", doesn't it? Luckily, Sylvie's solution does exactly what I want.