From: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:20:48 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: gitk: Display the date of a tag in a human-friendly way
X-Git-Tag: v1.8.3-rc2~1^2~4
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/685316c419caf4f4ec2e81e607d3e3ab089e329c?hp=--cc

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 <tagid>'

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 <gitster@pobox.com> 1356992771 -0800
+tagger Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Mon Dec 31 14:26:11 2012 -0800

Git 1.8.1
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Signed-off-by: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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685316c419caf4f4ec2e81e607d3e3ab089e329c
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)]} {