From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:28:13 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] add '%d' pretty format specifier to show decoration Message-ID: <7v7i9r1lnm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20080905001133.GA17463@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:40:03PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote: > >> Michael Dressel implemented an initial version and chose the letter d, >> Junio suggested to add a leading space and parentheses. > > The whole series looks good to me, and I am happy if it is applied > as-is. The only question I might raise is whether we want to use "%d" > for this, or use something longer to anticipate a collision with other > "d" words (I think you mentioned "describe" at one point). How about using "%d()" for this one, so that later enhancements can specify their features inside parentheses?