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Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] pretty: add aliases for pretty formats

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 2, 2010, 04:47 UTC
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On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 08:13:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I didn't follow the config namespace discussions, though.  Is everybody
> happy with the naming used in this patch?
Yes, I am happy with pretty.*. But:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:35:28PM +0100, Will Palmer wrote:
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> +pretty.<name>::
> +	Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
> +	linkgit:git-log[1]. Any aliases defined here can be used just
> +	as the built-in pretty formats could. For example, defining
> +	"format.pretty.hash = format:%H" would cause the invocation
> +	"git log --pretty=hash" to be equivalent to running
> +	"git log --pretty=format:%H". Note that an alias with the same
> +	name as a built-in format will be silently ignored.
The descriptive text mentions the old "format.pretty.hash".
-Peff
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Message 20 of 21 in “pretty: format aliases”
  1. 0/5 pretty: format aliasesWill Palmer, Apr 30, 2010
  2. 1/5 pretty: add conditional %C?colorname placeholdersWill Palmer, Apr 30, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2010
  4. Will PalmerMay 2, 2010
  5. 2/5 pretty: make %H/%h/etc respect --abbrev[-commit]Will Palmer, Apr 30, 2010
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2010
  7. Jeff KingMay 2, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2010
  9. Jeff KingMay 2, 2010
  10. Will PalmerMay 2, 2010
  11. Will PalmerMay 2, 2010
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederMay 2, 2010
  14. 3/5 pretty: make it easier to add new formatsWill Palmer, Apr 30, 2010
  15. 4/5 pretty: add infrastructure to allow format aliasesWill Palmer, Apr 30, 2010
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2010
  17. Will PalmerMay 2, 2010
  18. 5/5 pretty: add aliases for pretty formatsWill Palmer, Apr 30, 2010
  19. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2010
  20. Jeff KingMay 2, 2010
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2010

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