Synopsis:
When expanding '%gd' placeholder (reflog selector), git substitutes
user-specified --date format, which mangles the reflog.
Description:
I was writing a script that expects a stash reflog and a date on stdin:
% git stash list --format='%gd%n%ad'
stash@{0}
Sat Aug 5 13:26:30 2017 -0400
stash@{1}
Sat Aug 5 13:18:54 2017 -0400
…
Since this date is going to be presented to the user, I wanted to apply my own
date format:
% git stash list --format='%gd%n%ad' --date=format:%Y/%m/%d
stash@{2017/08/05}
2017/08/05
stash@{2017/08/05}
2017/08/05
…
Unfortunately this mangles the reflog as well (e.g. "stash@{2017/08/05}"),
making it useless when passed back to git.
Apparently stashes can be referenced by date, which is fine I suppose. But
those dates should never be subject to user-defined formatting via
--date=format:….
I'd expect the above command to instead output:
% git stash list --format='%gd%n%ad' --date=format:%Y/%m/%d
stash@{0}
2017/08/05
stash@{1}
2017/08/05
…
or at least always use the ISO date format:
% git stash list --format='%gd%n%ad'
stash@{2017-08-05 13:26:30 -0400}
2017-08-05 13:26:30 -0400
stash@{2017-08-05 13:18:54 -0400}
2017-08-05 13:18:54 -0400
…
Steve
