Use author rather than commiter

[CaptainQuirk]

Hi there,

I was comparing the results of my pretty git log alias command and the one of GV and I noticed, in case of a topic branch on which I performed a rebase, than the dates were not equivalent.

I'm using %ad in my alias, which is the Author date field while GV uses %cd, aka Commiter Date.

I was perusing my history to solve a deployment issue by pinpointing the end of a specific phase of work I had been doing on a feature before it was deployed for testing.

I realize that this is mostly the result of me not mastering the workflow, albeit peculiar to me, of this project. Still, since I'm often rebasing to present a work as neat as possible for pair review, the Committer date is not the information I'm interested in.

What are your thoughts on this ? Would you be strongly opposed to changing the format from Commiter date to Author date ?

Thanks for your time !

[BertrandSim]

I too prefer to use %ad. In addition, --format=%ad %h%d %s (%an) seems to be more consistent than the current format of --format=%cd %h%d %s (%an), where the author name %an is used.

[mg979]

You should be able to pass the format options to the GV command (escape spaces):

GV --format=%ad\ %h%d\ %s\ (%an)