Re: [PATCH 2/2] --date=relative falls back to "short" format for commits older than a year

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:59:26PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

That was what I thought.  There may be some very convincing reasoning I am
not seeing in the proposals to make it ultra-short like "Y yr M mo" or
"Y.x years" (i.e. "we _have_ to keep it under N characters"threshold), but
I doubt there is a particular place "Y years, M months" would make the
output too long to be acceptable.

Yeah, anything like blame that deals with arbitrary date formats has to
know how to handle at least

  strlen("Sun Feb 22 15:08:25 2009 -0500") = 30

anyway.  Even the default blame format is:

  strlen("2009-02-24 02:03:25 -0500") = 25

So "Y years, M months ago" is at least that short for the next ten
thousand years. I can live with setting the cutoff to just "years"
somewhere lower than 10,000. :)

-Peff