Re: [RFC v2] reflog: show committer date in verbose mode

Jiang Xin [off-list ref] writes:

2013/6/3 Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref]:

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Jiang Xin wrote:

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It will be nice to add this pretty formatter automatically when run
`git reflog` in verbose mode. And in order to support verbose mode, add
new flag "verbose" in struct rev_info.

Sorry I missed earlier revisions of this patch.  Generally speaking,
"verbose" is a bad way to control format-specifiers.  Why not add to
the list of pretty-format specifiers (like oneline, short, medium,
full)?  Also, this patch is extremely pervasive in that it teaches a
poorly defined "verbosity" to a very low layer: revision.c/revision.h.

I also feel bad when adding new flag "verbose" into rev_info. = =b

CommitDate is more significant than AuthorDate for reflog.

This is a curious statement, as I've seen it in a different context
recently.

Is it committer date that you really care about, or are you using it
as a substitute for something else you care more about, namely, the
time of the event the reflog entry was created (i.e. when you
committed, when you resetted, when you "branch -f"ed)?