From: Nathan Panike <nwp@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:53:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Specify a precision for the length of a subject string
Message-ID: <20111221145352.GB13097@llunet.cs.wisc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m2liq6go7y.fsf@igel.home>

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:26:25PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Nathan W. Panike" <nathan.panike@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > $ git log --pretty='%h %30s' d165204 -1
> 
> In C's formatted output this syntax denotes a minimum field width, not a
> precision, so it will probably be surprising to many people.

C semantics are already broken because (from git-log(1))

"If you add a - (minus sign) after % of a placeholder, line-feeds that
immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the placeholder
expands to an empty string."

rather than indicating justification of the field.
> 
> Andreas.
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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