Re: [PATCH 2/2] --date=relative falls back to "short" format for commits older than a year
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:15
Subject: Support 'raw' date format Talking about --date, one thing I wanted for the 1234567890 date was to get things in the raw format. Sure, you get them with --pretty=raw, but it felt a bit sad that you couldn't just ask for the date in raw format. So here's a throw-away patch (meaning: I won't be re-sending it, because I really don't think it's a big deal) to add "--date=raw". It just prints out the internal raw git format - seconds since epoch plus timezone (put another way: 'date +"%s %z"' format) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- Not a whole lot of testing. But git show --date=raw v2.6.29-rc5 works correctly. Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 4 +++- cache.h | 3 ++- date.c | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git i/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt w/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index b9f6e4d..5076322 100644
--- i/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ w/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ include::pretty-options.txt[] Synonym for `--date=relative`. ---date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}:: +--date={relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short,raw}:: Only takes effect for dates shown in human-readable format, such as when using "--pretty". `log.date` config variable sets a default
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ format, often found in E-mail messages. + `--date=short` shows only date but not time, in `YYYY-MM-DD` format. + +`--date=raw` shows the date in the internal raw git format `%s %z` format. ++ `--date=default` shows timestamps in the original timezone (either committer's or author's).
diff --git i/cache.h w/cache.h
index 21a6310..189151d 100644
--- i/cache.h
+++ w/cache.h@@ -696,7 +696,8 @@ enum date_mode { DATE_SHORT, DATE_LOCAL, DATE_ISO8601, - DATE_RFC2822 + DATE_RFC2822, + DATE_RAW }; const char *show_date(unsigned long time, int timezone, enum date_mode mode);
diff --git i/date.c w/date.c
index 950b88f..d75dff4 100644
--- i/date.c
+++ w/date.c@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ const char *show_date(unsigned long time, int tz, enum date_mode mode) struct tm *tm; static char timebuf[200]; + if (mode == DATE_RAW) { + snprintf(timebuf, sizeof(timebuf), "%lu %+05d", time, tz); + return timebuf; + } + if (mode == DATE_RELATIVE) { unsigned long diff; struct timeval now;
@@ -615,6 +620,8 @@ enum date_mode parse_date_format(const char *format) return DATE_LOCAL; else if (!strcmp(format, "default")) return DATE_NORMAL; + else if (!strcmp(format, "raw")) + return DATE_RAW; else die("unknown date format %s", format); }