"Stephen P. Smith" <ischis2@xxxxxxx> writes: > diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt > index 90761f1694..1d2d932c76 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt > @@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ log.date:: > `--date` option.) Defaults to "default", which means to write > dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`. > > + If the format is set to "auto:foo", then if the pager is in > + use format "foo" will be the used for the date format, otherwise > + "default" will be used. > + This text is good, but this would break ASCIIdoc formatting, wouldn't it? Observe how "notes.displayRef::" section does three-paragraph description and mimick it to make this two-paragraph description, perhaps. > log.follow:: > If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when > a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as `--follow`, > diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt > index bab5f50b17..5d58f35d19 100644 > --- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt > +++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt > @@ -835,6 +835,12 @@ Note that the `-local` option does not affect the seconds-since-epoch > value (which is always measured in UTC), but does switch the accompanying > timezone value. > + > +`--date=human` shows the timezone if it matches the current time-zone, Is it clear in the context that "it" refers to "the timestamp being shown"? I think the behaviour is that timezone is shown only the timestamp being shown is from a different timezone (i.e. if it *does* *not* match), though. > +and doesn't print the whole date if that matches (ie skip printing > +year for dates that are "this year", but also skip the whole date > +itself if it's in the last few days and we can just say what weekday > +it was). > ++ ... and also omit hour/minute part for a timestamp that is old enough. > `--date=unix` shows the date as a Unix epoch timestamp (seconds since > 1970). As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local` > has no effect.
