From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:43:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Make "terminator behavior" the default with --pretty=format: ?
Message-ID: <1298393039.2286.14.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimFYsG3x0uGX32Ozo6C_shHd4k8jnXNhYmy7Q80@mail.gmail.com>

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.