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Re: About git pretty

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 23, 2008, 00:12 UTC
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"David Tweed" <david.tweed@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>>> It is just me or 'pretty full' doesn't exactly convey the meaning of
>>> the action to execute?
> [snip]
>>> If you like the idea I can work on a patch.
>>
>> FWIW, I don't like it.
>
> It's probably much too late to change conventions given the number of
> deployed scripts, but one of the annoyances for me about git is that a
> lot of the commands/options names are based on what the code does/is
> written rather than relating to what a user who doesn't know or care
> about the inner workings expects as output. For instance, I imagine
> the --pretty gets its name because a pretty printing routine, called
> pretty_print_commit in the code,...

It's the other way around. We name function pretty_print_commit() because we would want to pretty print out output and the option to trigger the behaviour then is named --pretty.

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Message 4 of 11 in “About git pretty”
  1. Felipe ContrerasAug 22, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 22, 2008
  3. David TweedAug 23, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2008
  5. David TweedAug 23, 2008
  6. David TweedAug 23, 2008
  7. Stephan BeyerAug 23, 2008
  8. Felipe ContrerasAug 23, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinAug 24, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2008
  11. Felipe ContrerasFeb 21, 2009

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