From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:57:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] log --oneline: put decoration at the end of the line
Message-ID: <7vr4pxg507.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120919182039.GE11699@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.