From: Jeff King Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 04:47:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] pretty: add aliases for pretty formats Message-ID: <20100502044726.GB14776@coredump.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: <7vaasjyozt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> 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: > +pretty.:: > + 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