+
--
1. If the starting point is specified as `ref@{Nth}`, show the index
-format.
+ format.
+
2. If the starting point was specified as `ref@{now}`, show the
-timestamp format.
+ timestamp format.
+
3. If neither was used, but `--date` was given on the command line, show
-the timestamp in the format requested by `--date`.
+ the timestamp in the format requested by `--date`.
+
4. Otherwise, show the index format.
--
value (which is always measured in UTC), but does switch the accompanying
timezone value.
+
+`--date=human` shows the timezone if the timezone does not match the
+current time-zone, and doesn't print the whole date if that matches
+(ie skip printing year for dates that are "this year", but also skip
+the whole date itself if it's in the last few days and we can just say
+what weekday it was). For older dates the hour and minute is also
+omitted.
++
`--date=unix` shows the date as a Unix epoch timestamp (seconds since
1970). As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local`
has no effect.
the parents have only two variants and the merge result picks
one of them without modification.
+--combined-all-paths::
+ This flag causes combined diffs (used for merge commits) to
+ list the name of the file from all parents. It thus only has
+ effect when -c or --cc are specified, and is likely only
+ useful if filename changes are detected (i.e. when either
+ rename or copy detection have been requested).
+
-m::
This flag makes the merge commits show the full diff like
regular commits; for each merge parent, a separate log entry