Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2015, #05; Tue, 15)

SZEDER Gábor [off-list ref] writes:

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On the other hand, I've marked a handful of topics below as "Will
discard". They were all dormant after waiting for updates for quite
a long time; interested people may want to help resurrect them.

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* sg/pretty-more-date-mode-format (2015-10-07) 1 commit
 - pretty: add format specifiers for short and raw date formats

 Introduce "%as" and "%aR" placeholders for "log --format" to show
 the author date in the short and raw formats.

 No comments after waiting for a long time.
 Will discard.

By adding missing date format specifiers this patch improves
consistency, improves usability of pretty format aliases, benefits at
least one user, and does nothing wrong in its implementation.  

The above used to say:

    I have a feeling that that this is a step in a wrong direction.
    Comments?

which came from this comment of mine in $gmane/279195

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It makes me wonder if it's time for us to move to a more extensible
format, e.g. "%aT(...)", in which 'T' stands for 'timestamp' and the
part in the parentheses can be any format string that is understood
by "log --date=<format>"...

to which you said this in $gmane/279236

That would be great, especially that in [*1*].  Real words are so
much better than one or two letter codes.

and I was hoping that at least we hear justification for not doing
the right thing and instead adding more short codes that we'd need
to maintain indefinitely, which I heard none.  Of course, it would
have been great if we saw a "more extensible format" patch ;-)

I'll keep the topic in 'pu' for now as a reminder.