From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:24:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] --pretty=format does not work ok with rev-list
Message-ID: <7vbq3xpzba.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <slrng1386p.ujv.joerg@alea.gnuu.de>

Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> writes:

>> k@k0001 ~/linux-2.6 $ git rev-list -2 --pretty=format:"%H: %cn" master
>> commit f4be31ec9690cfe6e94fcbed6ae60a6a38b3c3ed
>> f4be31ec9690cfe6e94fcbed6ae60a6a38b3c3ed: Linus Torvalds
>> commit 44cad261025c04327fd7e847a7088fd3031b0c3e
>> 44cad261025c04327fd7e847a7088fd3031b0c3e: Linus Torvalds
>
> Is this a bug? I've the same “problem” in my rebase with merge patch
> series and added a “|grep -v ^commit”. But if this is a bug, I can remove
> it.

I personally do not think the above is a particularly desirable output,
but that's how rev-list worked for a long time and existing scripts
probably expect it that way.

rev-list is for script consumption, and giving --pretty=format that has %H
in it would be asking for redundant information.