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[PATCH] log --format: document %w

From
René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Nov 22, 2009, 16:15 UTC
Message-ID
<4B0963A3.4060804@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
---
I'm not especially proud of the triple negative in that note.  How to say it
better, yet concise?
 Documentation/pretty-formats.txt |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 0946202..7ff6a6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ The placeholders are:
 - '%m': left, right or boundary mark
 - '%n': newline
 - '%x00': print a byte from a hex code
+- '%w([<w>[,<i1>[,<i2>]]])': switch line wrapping, like the -w option of
+  linkgit:git-shortlog[1].  NOTE: Color placeholders (`%C*`) are not
+  recognized as having no width, so they should not be put into wrapped
+  sections.
 
 NOTE: Some placeholders may depend on other options given to the
 revision traversal engine. For example, the `%g*` reflog options will
-- 
1.6.5.3
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