From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:43:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] log and rev-list: Fixed newline termination issues with --graph
Message-ID: <7vhcedpnma.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080407131728.GA20319@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> The main drawback is that dropping the automatic separator breaks
> existing uses. We could work around this by automatically appending '%n'
> if there is no use of "%n" or "%N",...

Yeah, I agree that sounds quite bad, and that is why I favor more explicit
and independent way to choose between separator and terminator (like the
"tformat" thing).