Re: git show and the --quiet option

From: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Date: May 28, 2011, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <4DE13906.9030806@isy.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20110528172611.GB28708@centaur.lab.cmartin.tk>

Hi Carlos,

thanks for the detailed answer.

On 05/28/2011 07:26 PM, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:

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> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:53:28PM +0200, Gustaf Hendeby wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I was playing around with "git show" lately and realized it has changed
>> its behavior regarding the --quiet option, which no longer suppresses
>> the diff output as it used to.  The behavior change happened in
>> 1c40c36b ("log: convert to parse-options").  Was this intentional?
>  How are you using the --quiet option and why would you even need it?

I used

git show --quiet --pretty="format:%ci" HEAD

to extract the commit date of HEAD, and I simply replaced it with

git log -1 --quiet --pretty="format:%ci" HEAD

Though, the email from Junio suggests I should use (and this works)

git show -a --pretty="format:%ci" HEAD

still, I wonder if there is no better/more efficient solution to this.

/Gustaf