Re: [PATCH v9 9/9] cocci: allow padding with `strbuf_addf()`

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 11, 2022, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID: <220111.86iluqxaz9.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Yd2zXOrf+4qX8VLD@nand.local>

On Tue, Jan 11 2022, Taylor Blau wrote:

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> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 07:00:59PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 06 2022, Teng Long wrote:
>> > The original rule was introduced by commit:
>> >
>> >     https://github.com/git/git/commit/28c23cd4c3902449aff72cb9a4a703220be0d6ac
>>
>> Let's refer to commits like this:
>>
>>     28c23cd4c39 (strbuf.cocci: suggest strbuf_addbuf() to add one strbuf to an other, 2019-01-25)
>
> I find it helpful to have an alias like:
>
>     $ git config alias.ll
>     !git always --no-pager log -1 --pretty='tformat:%h (%s, %ad)' --date=short
>
> in my $HOME/.gitconfig so that I can easily format commits in the
> standard way.
>
> I think that this alias came from Peff, but I can't remember.

Nowadays you can do this as:

    git show -s --pretty=reference

See Documentation/SubmittingPatches

I use:

    $ git help reference
    'reference' is aliased to '!git --no-pager log --pretty=reference -1'