Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 5, 2006, 22:58 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy7pmdk60.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612052340260.28348@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
>> The recently posted patch documenting is an improvement, but why not
>> add an option so you can do
>> 
>>   --format 'committer %c\nauthor %a\n'
>>   
>> this catches all combinations, and is easier for scripting.
>
> Yes, it would be easier for scripting, and it would probably be relatively 
> easy, what with the addition of interpolate.[ch] to git. However, it is 
> work, and I am lazy.

Lazy is good when the details should not matter. If some people are scripting, they are fully capable of reading raw or fuller.

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