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

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 26, 2010, 18:37 UTC
Message-ID: <20100426183755.GC11378@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <20100426180731.GB4012@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:57:08PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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>>  [log "format"]
>> 	changelog = "* [%h] %s"
>
> We usually reserve the [log "format"] for when "format" can be an
> arbitrary string. I'm not sure if we can use some nicer syntax like
> [log.format]; I'd have to experiment.

Alternatively, we could use

 [logformat]
	changelog = ...

which is arguably just as clear and may be closer to existing practice. But really, I am happy as long as the configuration exists.

Jonathan