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Unknown date format error #860

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ihmcjacky opened this issue Sep 23, 2019 · 6 comments
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Unknown date format error #860

ihmcjacky opened this issue Sep 23, 2019 · 6 comments

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@ihmcjacky
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ihmcjacky commented Sep 23, 2019 •
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The following error occurs when compare branches and viewing individual commits after upgrading to gitlens v10

Issue Type: Bug (Maybe)
Extension Name: gitlens
Extension Version: 10.0.0
OS Version: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
VSCode version: 1.38.1
Git Version: v2.7.4

Command failed: /usr/bin/git -c core.quotepath=false -c color.ui=false for-each-ref --format=%3ch%3e%(HEAD)%3cn%3e%(refname)%3cu%3e%(upstream:short)%3ct%3e%(upstream:track)%3cr%3e%(objectname)%3cd%3e%(committerdate:unix) refs/heads refs/remotes fatal: unknown date format unix
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eamodio commented Sep 23, 2019

@ihmcjacky what version of Git do you have installed?

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@ihmcjacky what version of Git do you have installed?

Sorry for missing the info, further update the thread

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eamodio commented Sep 23, 2019

@ihmcjacky It looks like the unix date format was added in Git 2.13.7 -- can you upgrade Git?

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@ihmcjacky It looks like the unix date format was added in Git 2.13.7 -- can you upgrade Git?

@eamodio After upgrading to git v2.23.0, problem gone, thanks so much!

eamodio added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 24, 2019
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Fixes #860 & #862 - switch to iso dates
705a13c 
Older version of Git don't support unix timestamp dates
jdblischak added a commit to workflowr/workflowr that referenced this issue Dec 17, 2019
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Use raw date format for backwards compatibility with Git.
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The data format "unix" was added in Git 2.13.7. My Ubuntu has
2.17.1. However, rocker/r-ver:3.2.5 has 2.1.4, causing an error.

gitkraken/vscode-gitlens#860 (comment)

Thus I instead use the raw date format and then parse it to only
obtain the first part containing the unix time.

$ git log -n 1 --date=unix --format=%ad
1576601494
$ git log -n 1 --date=raw --format=%ad
1576601494 -0500
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The discussion in this Issue was helpful for me as I was debugging a Git-related issue with my own software. Thanks!

It looks like the unix date format was added in Git 2.13.7 -- can you upgrade Git?

In case anyone else finds this issue, the option --date=unix was added in version 2.9.4 (link to release notes):

$ git clone git@github.com:git/git.git
$ cd git
$ grep 'date=unix' Documentation/RelNotes/*
Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt:   --date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone)
Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt:   --date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone)

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