From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:00:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] pretty: format aliases
Message-ID: <20100426220049.GA15903@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <1272316461.5368.4.camel@walleee>

Will Palmer wrote:

> [pretty]
>     changelog = ...

Fine by me. :)

> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 13:37 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>  [logformat]
>> 	changelog = ...
[...]
> I like the one-level-of-hierarchy thing ([format "pretty"] is ugly for a
> number of reasons), but two problems with that specific name:
>  - it says "log", while this effects more than the "log" command
>  - it says "format", while this doesn't effect --format.

Ah, but it does affect --format.  When Nanako wrote commit 3a4c1a5
(Add --format that is a synonym to --pretty, 2009-02-24), the new
option made me very happy.  And since then it has remained a synonym.

Cheers,
Jonathan