From: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 05:36:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty: allow to override the built-in formats
Message-ID: <8bb68268-8e4c-749e-b2e0-21b38b70c8bf@drbeat.li>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqeene36t7.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On 06.09.20 23:59, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Hmm, I'm not sure how I feel about being able to override formats other
>> than "reference".
> 
> Is the idea to introduce a parallel namespace to pretty.<name>?  I
> am not sure why that is a good idea than, say a single variable that
> says "to me, pretty.<name> would override even the built-in names".
> 
> I am not sure how I feel about being able to override built-in
> formats in the first place, though.
> 
> After all, pretty.<name> were introduced so that user-defined ones
> can be invoked with an equal ease as the built-in ones, but
> overriding common understanding among the users of the tool is a
> different story.

I gave a reason for the reference format, at least.

Would you be fine with a patch that just allows to override the
reference format (for the stated reasons)?