Plumbing commands (was: Bug report - git show <tagname> together with --pretty=format)
On 2009-04-08 18:37 (+0200), Santi Béjar wrote:
> In addition to what Michael said, you should use the plumbing commands
> instead of the porcelain (see man git). They are specifically for use
> with scripts and parse their output. The output from the porcelain
> commands can change.
Hmm, I've been using a command like this in a script:
date=$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%ai $REV)
Would it be better to change it to
date=$(git rev-list -1 --pretty=format:%ai $REV | sed -e 1d)
or something else?