From: Marc Branchaud Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 18:35:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] log: document the --decorate=auto option Message-ID: <57489366.507@xiplink.com> In-Reply-To: <57486E12.7030907@ramsayjones.plus.com> On 2016-05-27 11:56 AM, Ramsay Jones wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones > --- > > Hi Junio, > > While reading an email from Linus earlier (RFC: dynamic "auto" date formats), > I noticed that log.decorate was being set to 'auto'. Since I didn't recall > that setting (even if it's easy to guess), I went looking for the documentation ... > > This should probably be marked RFC, since I haven't checked that the formatting > is OK (I don't have the documentation toolchain installed these days). > > ATB, > Ramsay Jones > > Documentation/config.txt | 5 ++++- > Documentation/git-log.txt | 8 +++++--- > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt > index 53f00db..0707b3b 100644 > --- a/Documentation/config.txt > +++ b/Documentation/config.txt > @@ -1956,7 +1956,10 @@ log.decorate:: > command. If 'short' is specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/', > 'refs/tags/' and 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is > specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. > - This is the same as the log commands '--decorate' option. > + If 'auto' is specified, then if the output is going to a terminal, > + the ref names are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref > + names are shown. This is the same as the log commands '--decorate' s/commands/command's/ M.