Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Nov 24, 2006, 12:26 UTC
Message-ID: <4566E512.4010405@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <ejkd6g$vog$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski escreveu:

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>>   - --pretty option with wholly uninformative options full, medium, 
>> short, raw.  It's not even documented what each option does.
> 
> And 'oneline' and undocumented 'email'. True, git lacks documentation (and
> this one of main complaints in git survey).

The recently posted patch documenting is an improvement, but why not add an option so you can do

  --format 'committer %c\nauthor %a\n'
  
this catches all combinations, and is easier for scripting.

Right now, I have some scripts that have to munge log output with regular expressions to strip out the "author:" prefixes.

-- 
 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

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