From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:05:07 GMT
Subject: Re: something like git-for-each-ref's --format for commits?
Message-ID: <20080106090507.GA10965@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080106085221.GA1729@bulgaria.corp.google.com>

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:52:21AM -0800, Brian Swetland wrote:

> The --pretty=format:... option for git-log, etc has the annoying
> property of giving you <unknown> instead of an empty string if an
> item isn't example (say if you use %b on a commit with no body).
> 
> Am I missing some obvious solution here?  

I think --pretty=format: is what you are looking for. The "<unknown>"
behavior is fixed in the upcoming v1.5.4 (you get the empty string for
your example).

-Peff