Merge branch 'lt/date-human'

A new date format "--date=human" that morphs its output depending
on how far the time is from the current time has been introduced.
"--date=auto" can be used to use this new format when the output is
going to the pager or to the terminal and otherwise the default
format.

* lt/date-human:
  Add `human` date format tests.
  Add `human` format to test-tool
  Add 'human' date format documentation
  Replace the proposed 'auto' mode with 'auto:'
  Add 'human' date format

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diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 8a4867998e..cad711ce0a 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -836,6 +836,13 @@ Note that the `-local` option does not affect the seconds-since-epoch
 value (which is always measured in UTC), but does switch the accompanying
 timezone value.
 +
+`--date=human` shows the timezone if the timezone does not match the
+current time-zone, and doesn't print the whole date if that matches
+(ie skip printing year for dates that are "this year", but also skip
+the whole date itself if it's in the last few days and we can just say
+what weekday it was).  For older dates the hour and minute is also
+omitted.
++
 `--date=unix` shows the date as a Unix epoch timestamp (seconds since
 1970).  As with `--raw`, this is always in UTC and therefore `-local`
 has no effect.