Can we change date format and information order?

[rodhash]

Tried a few different ways two things: the date format to a shorter format, and the order of data ideally to: commit hash, author, msg, date.

Tried messing with these vars but seems to have no effect:

let g:flog_default_opts = {
            \ 'date': 'short',
            \ }

let g:flog_permanent_default_opts = {
            \ 'date': 'short',
            \ }

let g:flog_order_types = [
  \ { 'name': 'author', 'args': '--author-date-order' },
  \ { 'name': 'date', 'args': '--date-order' },
  \ { 'name': 'topo', 'args': '--topo-order' },
  \ ]

Suggestions?

[rbong]

Setting the default date format:

The date format can be specified by the "date" option.

It can be specified using Flog -date=..., the g:flog_permanent_default_opts setting (if you don't want the option to be cleared when resetting args), or g:flog_default_opts (if you're okay with it being cleared). The way you're setting the default date format in your example is exactly correct.

This Flog argument corresponds to the git log --date=... argument - in other words setting :Flog -date=my-date-format is exactly the same as running git log --date=my-date-format.

You can view the documentation for this Git argument by running the command man git log and searching for --date (using the / key like in Vim) if you have Git manpages installed, or you can read the documentation for git log --date=... online.

In general, when the documentation available in :help flog says something corresponds to a git log command argument or another subcommand, refer to the Git documentation for that command in this same way.

There are several special formats for -date/--date, including short like you've shown in your example.

Custom date formats:

Of particular interest to you may be the --date=format:... option, which is a special format that allows you to specify custom date formats. From the git-log manpage:

--date=format:... feeds the format ... to your system strftime, except for %s, %z, and %Z, which are handled internally. Use --date=format:%c to show the date in your system locale’s preferred format. See the strftime manual for a complete list of format placeholders. When using -local, the correct syntax is --date=format-local:....

So for example in Flog, you can do something like :Flog -date=format:%Y-%m-%d to show the year, month, and day. For the full format specification, see man strftime or an online copy of the strftime implementation for your OS manpage. The example I gave will work in most if not all Unix based systems.

Changing the order of data:

To change the order of data in the log, use the "format" option. This corresponds to the --pretty=format:... argument in git- log. This can be specified similar to the "date" option, and you can find the Git documentation for it in the same way.

For the format you've outlined - commit hash, author, msg, date - use the format option value %h %an %s %ad. (Note that if you specify this directly in a command, spaces need to be escaped with a backslash).

The g:flog_order_types setting:

This setting is used to change how order options are cycled through when cycling through them with goo.

Example config:

Putting it all together:

let g:flog_permanent_default_opts = {
  \ 'date': '%Y-%m-%d',
  \ 'format': '%h %an %s %ad',
  \ }

Hope that helps.
More information is in :help flog for each of the options and settings detailed here.

[rodhash]

Amazing, really appreciate all the details it worked great!

However I noticed what seems to be a bug, using -date=relative it breaks the HL groups when the date format changes and take more spacing:

One more example:

[rbong]

Should be fixed now on master.

[rodhash]

Hey .. thanks for the prompt fix but I don't see any commit on master

[rbong]

Apologies, should be pushed now

[rodhash]

Apologies, should be pushed now

Thanks a lot, it's working great!