From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:16:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Incorrect pipe for git log graph when using --name-status option
Message-ID: <20170213211653.x3huwmzprvmm3yxj@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAM_JFCwN+o54mJ1XJ3rSKnXgPx3wt_i=fd8ZSGpcL-fSegQ=Ow@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:55:07PM -0800, hIpPy wrote:

> I think that requiring to end custom formats with %n with options
> is not good. So I think this is a bug.

Yes, you don't normally need to do that.

I think the problem is specifically related to the "terminator" versus
"separator" semantics. Try:

  git log --graph --name-status --pretty=format:%h

versus:

  git log --graph --name-status --pretty=tformat:%h

The latter works fine. The problem seems to happen with all diff
formats, so I think the issue is that git is not aggressive enough about
inserting the newline at the right spot when using separator mode.

-Peff