From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:53:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?] git log does not decorate when custom format is used
Message-ID: <20080820175325.GD27773@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1KVmkk-2IOrGi0@fwd26.aul.t-online.de>

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:25:30PM +0200, MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de wrote:

> is it a bug?

Sort of. More like a missing feature.

> When I use something like:
> git log --pretty=format:'%H %s' --decorate
> I do not get the decoration.
> While 
> git log --pretty=oneline --decorate
> does decorate.

The problem is where the decoration would go. I think it makes sense not
to show the decoration automatically in that case, since its placement
depends on the user formatting.

The right solution would be a '%d' placeholder to include the
decoration. Patch series to follow:

  [1/2] decorate: allow const objects to be decorated
  [2/2] allow '%d' pretty format specifier to show decoration

-Peff