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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Nathan Panike" <nathan.panike@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Use %as and %cs as pretty format flags
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:43:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b130808282043v5516e95ai49f928aeefb75fdd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7viqtkd84s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> I was actually thinking about rejecting this, asking for something that
> allows to express all the other %[ai][dDri] format can express, and
> perhaps more.  So I think "%ad(short)" is a good direction to go, except
> that 'd' is already taken.  Perhaps %a(date), %a(shortdate,local),...?

These format strings are getting increasingly complicated without
really gaining much in generality.  Why not
"%ad(strftime-compatible-format-string)" ?  You could differentiate
localtime vs. gmtime with %ad vs. %aD, or something like that.

Have fun,

Avery

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-29  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 11:09 [PATCH 0/2] Use %as and %cs as pretty format flags Nathan Panike
2008-08-28 23:15 ` Jeff King
2008-08-28 23:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-28 23:54     ` Jeff King
2008-08-29  0:10       ` Nathan W. Panike
2008-08-29  0:54         ` Jeff King
2008-08-29  1:08           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-29  8:12       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-08-29  3:43     ` Avery Pennarun [this message]

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