From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:09:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] pretty: format aliases
Message-ID: <20100425220955.GA25620@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <20100425194800.GB14736@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> The config variables format.* are traditionally about format-patch. I
> see we have format.pretty these days, too.

Yes, it as added in commit v1.5.5-rc0~57^2 (log/show/whatchanged:
introduce format.pretty configuration, 2008-03-02):

    When running log/show/whatchanged from the command line, the user may want
    to use a preferred format without having to pass --pretty=<fmt> option
    every time from the command line.  This teaches these three commands to
    honor a new configuration variable, format.pretty.

    The --pretty option given from the command line will override the 
    configured format.

I use it to mess with line wrapping; that it’s possible is very nice.
Thanks, Renquan.

Jonathan