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gitk: Display the date of a tag in a human-friendly way
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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 5d41784
   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
   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

Signed-off-by: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Anand Kumria authored and Paul Mackerras committed May 11, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -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)]} {
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