From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:22:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] pretty: format aliases
Message-ID: <20100426172235.GA626@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100425220955.GA25620@progeny.tock>

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:09:55PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> 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.

To be clear, I don't have any problem with the _functionality_. I just
think it probably should have been log.pretty, or pretty.default or
something. Too late now, though.

-Peff