Closes #601 - adds setting to control relative date markers

README.md

@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ See also [View Settings](#view-settings- 'Jump to the View settings')
 | `gitlens.views.commitFormat`                | Specifies the format of committed changes in the views. See the [GitLens docs](https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting) for advanced formatting<br /><br />Available tokens<br />`${id}`&mdash; commit id<br />`${author}` &mdash; commit author<br />`${message}`&mdash; commit message<br />`${ago}` &mdash; relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago)<br />`${date}`&mdash; formatted commit date (format specified by`gitlens.statusBar.dateFormat`)<br />`${agoOrDate}` &mdash; commit date specified by `gitlens.defaultDateStyle`<br />`${authorAgo}`&mdash; commit author, relative commit date<br />`${authorAgoOrDate}` &mdash; commit author, commit date specified by `gitlens.defaultDateStyle`               |
 | `gitlens.views.commitDescriptionFormat`     | Specifies the description format of committed changes in the views. See the [GitLens docs](https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting) for advanced formatting<br /><br />Available tokens<br />`${id}`&mdash; commit id<br />`${author}` &mdash; commit author<br />`${message}`&mdash; commit message<br />`${ago}` &mdash; relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago)<br />`${date}`&mdash; formatted commit date (format specified by`gitlens.statusBar.dateFormat`)<br />`${agoOrDate}` &mdash; commit date specified by `gitlens.defaultDateStyle`<br />`${authorAgo}`&mdash; commit author, relative commit date<br />`${authorAgoOrDate}` &mdash; commit author, commit date specified by `gitlens.defaultDateStyle`   |
 | `gitlens.views.defaultItemLimit`            | Specifies the default number of items to show in a view list. Use 0 to specify no limit                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+| `gitlens.views.showRelativeDateMarkers`     | Specifies whether to show relative date markers (_Less than a week ago_, _Over a week ago_, _Over a month ago_, etc) on revision (commit) histories in the views                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 | `gitlens.views.stashFileFormat`             | Specifies the format of a stashed file in the views<br /><br />Available tokens<br />`${directory}` &mdash; directory name<br />`${file}` &mdash; file name<br />`${filePath}` &mdash; formatted file name and path<br />`${path}` &mdash; full file path                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
 | `gitlens.views.stashFileDescriptionFormat`  | Specifies the description format of a stashed file in the views<br /><br />Available tokens<br />`${directory}` &mdash; directory name<br />`${file}` &mdash; file name<br />`${filePath}` &mdash; formatted file name and path<br />`${path}` &mdash; full file path                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
 | `gitlens.views.stashFormat`                 | Specifies the format of stashed changes in the views. See the [GitLens docs](https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting) for advanced formatting<br /><br />Available tokens<br />`${id}` &mdash; commit id<br />`${author}` &mdash; commit author<br />`${message}` &mdash; commit message<br />`${ago}` &mdash; relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago)<br />`${date}`&mdash; formatted commit date (format specified by `gitlens.statusBar.dateFormat`)<br />`${agoOrDate}` &mdash; commit date specified by `gitlens.defaultDateStyle`<br />`${authorAgo}` &mdash; commit author, relative commit date<br />`${authorAgoOrDate}` &mdash; commit author, commit date specified by `gitlens.defaultDateStyle`             |

package.json

@@ -1497,6 +1497,12 @@
                     "markdownDescription": "Specifies where to show the _Search Commits_ view",
                     "scope": "window"
                 },
+                "gitlens.views.showRelativeDateMarkers": {
+                    "type": "boolean",
+                    "default": true,
+                    "markdownDescription": "Specifies whether to show relative date markers (_Less than a week ago_, _Over a week ago_, _Over a month ago_, etc) on revision (commit) histories in the views",
+                    "scope": "window"
+                },
                 "gitlens.views.stashFileFormat": {
                     "type": "string",
                     "default": "${file}",

src/ui/config.ts

@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ export interface ViewsConfig {
     lineHistory: LineHistoryViewConfig;
     repositories: RepositoriesViewConfig;
     search: SearchViewConfig;
+    showRelativeDateMarkers: boolean;
     stashFileDescriptionFormat: string;
     stashFileFormat: string;
     stashDescriptionFormat: string;

src/views/nodes/helpers.ts

@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ export function* insertDateMarkers
     parent: ViewNode,
     skip?: number
 ): Iterable<ViewNode> {
+    if (!parent.view.config.showRelativeDateMarkers) {
+        return yield* iterable;
+    }
+
     let index = skip || 0;
     let time = undefined;
     const now = Date.now();