From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:40:27 GMT
Subject: Re: default aliases (ci, di, st, co)
Message-ID: <20090713064027.GA10300@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A56786B.7040904@gnu.org>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:08:27AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> Yes, it's in the wiki and in my .gitconfig:
> 
>         whatis = "!sh -c 'git show -s --pretty=\"format:%h (%s, %ai\"
> \"$@\" | sed -e \"s/ [012][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]
> [-+][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$/)\\n/\"' -"

Is there a reason not to simply use:

  whatis = "show -s --pretty='format:%h (%s, %ad)' --date=short"

these days?

-Peff

P.S. Actually, I use --no-pager in my version, so I use 'tformat' to
explicitly end it with a newline, which is nicer for actually showing
the output on the terminal.