Re: [PATCH 0/2] Use %as and %cs as pretty format flags

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:10:45PM -0500, Nathan W. Panike wrote:

quoted

The genesis of this patch was the documentation says that %ad
represents 'author date' without any more specific information.  I
thought that I could do

git show --date=short --pretty=format:"%ad %h"

and get the date in short form---but alas, this did not work.  So I

Regardless of expansions to --pretty=format:, that is something we
should probably be doing _anyway_. The current behavior is just
confusing, and %ad is simply documented as "date", not in any particular
format (and I think anyone relying on it _ignoring_ --date= is insane,
since that --date is otherwise not doing anything).

So how about this?

-- >8 --
pretty=format: respect date format options

When running a command like:

  git log --pretty=format:%ad --date=short

the date option was ignored. This patch causes it to use
whatever format was specified by --date (or by
--relative-date, etc), just as the non-user formats would
do.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <redacted>

Like the idea; haven't looked at the patch yet, though.