From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 05:04:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow --pretty to be passed to git-describe.
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In-Reply-To: <1395709444-11220-1-git-send-email-tipecaml@gmail.com>

Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com> writes:

> In some cases, ony may want to find the the most recent tag that is reachable
> from a commit and have it pretty printed, using the formatting options available
> in git-log and git-show.

Sorry, but I do not understand the motivation I can read from these
three lines well enough to say that such a change makes any sense.

It somewhat sounds similar to adding a "--long" option to "git show"
so that "git show --long v1.9.0" will act as if it were running a
"git log v1.9.0".  Yes, you can add any option to tell a command to
do something that is usually considered to be a task for some other
command, but does it even make sense to do so in the first place?