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Reputation: 1307

How to "toggle" the date format of git-log? How to display both relative and absolute dates simultaneously in the same git log?

My current default git log line runs as follows:

git log --graph --date=relative --pretty=format:'%Cblue%h%Creset %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s' --abbrev-commit -7

Sometimes, however, I'd prefer an absolute date/time format, rather than relative, so I tried: --date=default and --date=local instead of --date=relative and even left --date=.. out altogether: the result was unchanged. Possibly it has to do with "log.date config variable sets a default value for log command's --date option.", I don't know. Possibly I'd need to restart the terminal (but if that were the case I'd be a tad disappointed...).

In short, I'd like to "toggle" the date, and morever even be able to use both date formats in one instance of git log.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3176

Answers (1)

Joachim Isaksson
Joachim Isaksson

Reputation: 180867

--pretty=format:'%Cblue%h%Creset %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s'

%cr in a format string means relative committer date.

From git help log;

  • %cd: committer date
  • %cD: committer date, RFC2822 style
  • %cr: committer date, relative
  • %ct: committer date, UNIX timestamp
  • %ci: committer date, ISO 8601 format

Changing the format to for example %ci will show the date in absolute format.

Upvotes: 12

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