Re: [PATCH] pretty: allow to override the built-in formats

From: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Date: Sep 7, 2020, 07:06 UTC
Message-ID: <259819c3-4d6c-e9ed-80c9-15ffa8feb6ad@drbeat.li>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtuwa13gt.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On 07.09.20 08:54, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Finally, a non-built-in name to express the format specific to a
> project can already be defined and used pretty easily; e.g. the
> "pretty.kernel" format may say %h ("%s") and can be used like
> 
>     $ git show -s --pretty=kernel HEAD
> 
> with the same ease as the 'reference' format.
> 
>     $ git show -s --pretty=reference HEAD

This would work fine if there wasn't also gitk, which has a "Copy commit reference" function. Without a common name for the format in Git and gitk, we lose the single point of truth.

The one alternative I can see is to make the format name configurable in gitk.