[pca] pca feature request .. better handling with release dates

[dpecka]

excellent, thanks much !!! it's perfect

regards, daniel

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 10:18 +0200, Martin Paul wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> > i'm missing in pca few less important features like for example
> > possibility to list released patches by date ..
> 
> You're right, there is currently no way to show the release date of a patch with 
> PCA, only the age.
> 
> I've fixed that in the current development release (20110905-01). The "--format" 
> option now supports a new specifier (%d) to include the release date in PCA's 
> output. Instead of the date format used in patchdiag.xref, the date is shown in 
> ISO format (yyyy-mm-dd) to make sorting easier. Some examples:
> 
> # Show output in the usual format, but replace Age with Date
> pca --format '%p %i %e %c %r%s%b %d %y'
> 
> # Show all patches which were released in May 2010, sorted by date
> pca -H --format '%p-%c %d %y' -l total | grep 2010-05 | sort +1
> 
> BTW, I still believe that it's better to leave selecting/sorting to grep/sort 
> instead of trying to implement that into PCA itself.
> 
> Hope this helps, and thanks for bringing this up,
> 
> Martin.
> 
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