From 685316c419caf4f4ec2e81e607d3e3ab089e329c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anand Kumria Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:20:48 +0100 Subject: gitk: Display the date of a tag in a human-friendly way By selecting a tag within gitk you can display information about it. This information is output by using the command 'git cat-file tag ' This outputs the *raw* information from the tag, amongst which is the time - in seconds since the epoch. As useful as that value is, I find it a lot easier to read and process time which it is something like: "Mon Dec 31 14:26:11 2012 -0800" This change will modify the display of tags in gitk like so: @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ object 5d417842efeafb6e109db7574196901c4e95d273 type commit tag v1.8.1 -tagger Junio C Hamano 1356992771 -0800 +tagger Junio C Hamano Mon Dec 31 14:26:11 2012 -0800 Git 1.8.1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Signed-off-by: Anand Kumria Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- gitk | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gitk b/gitk index 5ba2ce6ebc..8d0501b48f 100755 --- a/gitk +++ b/gitk @@ -10831,7 +10831,7 @@ proc showtag {tag isnew} { set linknum 0 if {![info exists cached_tagcontent($tag)]} { catch { - set cached_tagcontent($tag) [exec git cat-file tag $tag] + set cached_tagcontent($tag) [exec git cat-file -p $tag] } } if {[info exists cached_tagcontent($tag)]} { -- cgit v1.2.1