From: Harry Jeffery <harry@exec64.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:30:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty-format: add append line-feed format specifier
Message-ID: <540F554C.5010301@exec64.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmwa8k3lg.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On 09/09/14 20:15, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Is this different from "%n%-d"?
>

Yes. "%n%-d" will place the newline before the expansion, not after.

log --decorate --pretty=format:"%n%-d%h\\ %t\\ [%cn]\\ %s"
---

  (HEAD, upstream/master, master)85f0837 c29da1d [Junio C Hamano] Start 
the post-2.1 cycle
  f655651 4027a43 [Junio C Hamano] Merge branch 'rs/strbuf-getcwd'
  51eeaea 1f4970c [Junio C Hamano] Merge branch 'ta/pretty-parse-config'
  4740891 8961621 [Junio C Hamano] Merge branch 'bc/archive-pax-header-mode'
---

log --decorate --pretty=format:"%_d%%h\\ %t\\ [%cn]\\ %s"
---
  (HEAD, upstream/master, master)
85f0837 c29da1d [Junio C Hamano] Start the post-2.1 cycle
f655651 4027a43 [Junio C Hamano] Merge branch 'rs/strbuf-getcwd'
51eeaea 1f4970c [Junio C Hamano] Merge branch 'ta/pretty-parse-config'
4740891 8961621 [Junio C Hamano] Merge branch 'bc/archive-pax-header-mode'
---

The latter is the output I've been trying to accomplish, and as far as I 
can tell, this patch is the only way to achieve it.

Well, you can do "%d%n" but that will put a blank line before every 
commit that doesn't have a ref.