From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:42:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] log --oneline: put decoration at the end of the line
Message-ID: <20120919234226.GA27626@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vr4pxegec.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 04:34:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Yeah, I do not think it is likely.  Among the in-tree scripts,
> > git-stash does use rev-list --oneline but the purpose of the call
> > exactly is to grab a human readable one line summary, and it will be
> > happy with any change to make --oneline more human readble.
> 
> Having said that, one of my often used alias is
> 
>     [alias] recent = log --branches --oneline --no-merges --decorate --since=3.weeks
> 
> to help me see what topics in flight may potentially interact with
> an incoming patch, when deciding on which commit to base the patch
> on.  Pushing the decoration at the end to let it fall off the right
> edge of the screen severely reduces the usefulness of it and defeats
> the point of using --decorate, at least for this use.
> 
> I could use --source instead, though, if it is not moved by the
> patch.

If you are particular about the exact format, how about using
--format="%h%d %s" instead?

Obviously Duy could do the same to achieve his format, but I think there
is still value in considering what the default for --oneline should be.

-Peff