pretty: provide human date format

Add the placeholders %ah and %ch to format author date and committer date, like --date=human does, which provides more humanity date output. Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

ZheNing Hu committed Apr 25, 2021 at 10:41 UTC b722d4560e9d566cb8c6cdccf08d649df146eb6b
3 files changed +13
Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
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@@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ The placeholders are:
190 '%ai':: author date, ISO 8601-like format
191 '%aI':: author date, strict ISO 8601 format
192 '%as':: author date, short format (`YYYY-MM-DD`)
193 +'%ah':: author date, human style (like the `--date=human` option of
194 + linkgit:git-rev-list[1])
195 '%cn':: committer name
196 '%cN':: committer name (respecting .mailmap, see
197 linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
@@ -206,6 +208,8 @@ The placeholders are:
208 '%ci':: committer date, ISO 8601-like format
209 '%cI':: committer date, strict ISO 8601 format
210 '%cs':: committer date, short format (`YYYY-MM-DD`)
211 +'%ch':: committer date, human style(like the `--date=human` option of
212 + linkgit:git-rev-list[1])
213 '%d':: ref names, like the --decorate option of linkgit:git-log[1]
214 '%D':: ref names without the " (", ")" wrapping.
215 '%(describe[:options])':: human-readable name, like
pretty.c
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@@ -745,6 +745,9 @@ static size_t format_person_part(struct strbuf *sb, char part,
745 case 'I': /* date, ISO 8601 strict */
746 strbuf_addstr(sb, show_ident_date(&s, DATE_MODE(ISO8601_STRICT)));
747 return placeholder_len;
748 + case 'h': /* date, human */
749 + strbuf_addstr(sb, show_ident_date(&s, DATE_MODE(HUMAN)));
750 + return placeholder_len;
751 case 's':
752 strbuf_addstr(sb, show_ident_date(&s, DATE_MODE(SHORT)));
753 return placeholder_len;
t/t4205-log-pretty-formats.sh
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@@ -538,6 +538,12 @@ test_expect_success '--date=short %ad%cd is the same as %as%cs' '
538 test_cmp expected actual
539 '
540
541 +test_expect_success '--date=human %ad%cd is the same as %ah%ch' '
542 + git log --format=%ad%n%cd --date=human >expected &&
543 + git log --format=%ah%n%ch >actual &&
544 + test_cmp expected actual
545 +'
546 +
547 # get new digests (with no abbreviations)
548 test_expect_success 'set up log decoration tests' '
549 head1=$(git rev-parse --verify HEAD~0) &&