Tommy Thorn <tt1729@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > [resent, sorry] > > --- Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I think we would very much prefer, instead of >> piling hacks on top of the originally supported >> "minimum set", to introduce a truly extensible >> syntax, like: > > I concur, but pretty-please make it a super set of > date(1) to the extent possible. It will lessen the > confusion. > > Maybe something like "%c(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M) ...", eg. > such > that if `date +<format>' is legal, so is > "%c(<format>)". Please read what you are replying to again. If you said the above with %cT(...), it might have made some sense (but then how are you differentiate between local and original timezone?), but %c(...) needs to show not just the timestamp. - 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