Re: [PATCH] log --oneline: put decoration at the end of the line

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2012, 19:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr4pxg507.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120919182039.GE11699@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> We should also consider briefly whether anybody is relying on --oneline
> for machine parsing. I think "log --oneline" is fair game, but I wonder
> if people calling "rev-list --decorate --oneline" should be considered.
> It seems kind of unlikely to me, considering that the decorate output is
> ambiguous to parse anyway (if you see parentheses, you cannot tell if it
> is decorate output or part of the commit subject).

Yeah, I do not think it is likely. Among the in-tree scripts, git-stash does use rev-list --oneline but the purpose of the call exactly is to grab a human readable one line summary, and it will be happy with any change to make --oneline more human readble.

t4202 has many invocations of "log --oneline --decorate", though; these things do get tested.