Re: [PATCH 0/3] pretty: format aliases

> 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.