Subject: Re: [PATCH] --format=pretty: new modifiers cID, cIS, CIY

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:29:27 -0800

Tommy Thorn <[email-masked]> writes:

> [resent, sorry]
>
> --- Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> I think we would very much prefer, instead of
>> piling hacks on top of the originally supported 
>> "minimum set", to introduce a truly extensible 
>> syntax, like:
>
> I concur, but pretty-please make it a super set of 
> date(1) to the extent possible. It will lessen the 
> confusion. 
>
> Maybe something like "%c(%Y-%m-%d %H:%M) ...", eg.
> such
> that if `date +<format>' is legal, so is
> "%c(<format>)".

Please read what you are replying to again.  If you said the
above with %cT(...), it might have made some sense (but then how
are you differentiate between local and original timezone?), but
%c(...) needs to show not just the timestamp.