From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:15:33 GMT
Subject: Re: 2.10.0: git log --oneline prints gpg signatures in 4 lines
Message-ID: <20160920231533.fxcdjgphz25hnbxt@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20160920170954.38b24284@labs-064.localdomain>

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 05:09:54PM +0200, Leandro Lucarella wrote:

> Hi, starting from 2.10.0 I noticed that when using git log --oneline,
> if commits are signed with GPG, now the signatures are printed too, and
> it takes 3 lines for the signature information + 1 line for the title
> of the commit, so suddenly --oneline became --fourline :)
> 
> Is this really intended?

I don't think anything has changed here in 2.10. Running "git log
--oneline --show-signature" has _always_ been horribly ugly. However,
2.10 did introduce the "log.showsignature" config, which makes "git log
--oneline" pretty unusable when it is enabled. Ditto for one-liner uses
of "--format".

I think we should probably ignore the config entirely when using any of
the one-liner formats (and I'd include --format, too, even though it can
sometimes be multi-line; it already has %GG to include that information
as appropriate).

Another option would be to somehow represent the signature information
in the --oneline output, but I think I'd rather leave that for people to
experiment with using "--format".

-Peff