From: Peter Vereshagin Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:12:15 GMT Subject: Re: 'show' pretty %B without a diff Message-ID: <20101220111214.GD10354@external.screwed.box> In-Reply-To: <7vmxo0ddbm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Hey Mr(s) Junio show some good to me! 2010/12/20 01:05:17 -0800 Junio C Hamano => To Peter Vereshagin : JCH> > I'd like to output a comment in my script. JCH> > Thus, I try: 'git show --format="%B" commitId' JCH> > There is always diff in the end of the output. No matter what format I specify, even when it is empty. JCH> > How can I avoid diff output in the 'git show'? JCH> JCH> The best answer to "avoid" it would be not to use "git show"; after all JCH> the command is about showing the change it introduces when it is used on a JCH> commit. JCH> JCH> Especially if you are doing a script, you probably should be using JCH> "cat-file commit" anyway, no? cat-file doesn't seem to support formatting option? Also, it outputs 4 more unwanted fields than just the %B... used with the -p is the only what looks like the what I asked. Is it appropriate in a general case to skip the everything on that output till the first empty line? cause I'm not sure those are always 4 and not-empty lines. Thanks anyway, it's just better than nothing. Although I wish the -p for cat-file to behave like the simlar-minded --pretty of the 'show'. (= Or the Git.pm just to have a functionality to get the %B of the commit. 73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB 12F8 0CE1 4AAC A0E2 6627) -- http://vereshagin.org