Subject: Re: git annotate with date option not working?

From: Chengwei Ding <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 18:28:43 +0200

Thx Peff, this really helps. So then doc on this cmd is outdated. Have
been used to emacs build-in vc which call annotate (rumor say it will
support git blame), anyway, have switch to other emacs git plugin now.

Thanks

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在 Jun 1, 2011，18:16，Jeff King <[email-masked]> 写道：

> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:20:37AM +0200, Chengwei Ding wrote:
>
>> can anyone confirm that this "--date" option is working for git
>> annotate cmd.
>
> This is by design:
>
>  $ git show 31653c1abc1ac80206db9efca56ff1969150d8fe
>  Author: Eugene Letuchy <[email-masked]>
>  Date:   Fri Feb 20 14:51:11 2009 -0800
>  [...]
>      git annotate ignores the date format specifiers and continues to
>      uses the ISO format, as before.
>  [...]
>  +       if (cmd_is_annotate) {
>                  output_option |= OUTPUT_ANNOTATE_COMPAT;
>  +               blame_date_mode = DATE_ISO8601;
>  +       } else {
>  +               blame_date_mode = revs.date_mode;
>  +       }
>
> The annotate command is a historical artifact, and will remain frozen in
> time in terms of output format and features. If you want to use newer
> features, use "git blame". If you really need the annotate output format
> with newer blame features, use "git blame -c".
>
> -Peff