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Re: Make "terminator behavior" the default with --pretty=format: ?

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Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 22, 2011, 16:43 UTC
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On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 16:43 +0100, Hrvoje Nikšić wrote:
> Is there a reason, other than backward compatibility, for
> "--prety=format:" to have separator rather than terminator semantics?
>

The "default behaviour" is the behaviour which occurs when one /doesn't/ specify something. For example: --pretty="%H %an" uses terminator semantics.

I agree that --pretty=sformat: might be less ambiguous, though.
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