Re: git notes question

> Nuno Sá <noname.nuno@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > > Well, this time it was "Notes:" label, but the next person who
> > > wants to see a deviation from the canned "email" format would
> > > want a
> > > deviation different from yours.  Perhaps they want a different
> > > way
> > 
> > I'm surely missing something but I'm not sure this is specific to
> > the
> > email format? It's just that git-notes by default will always
> > either
> > append the "Notes:" or "Notes (<refname>):" independent of the
> > predefined format you use. The only way to stop it from doing that
> > is,
> > apparently, by using your own --format=<template>...
> > ...
> > What I was asking was just if there was a way to not use these
> > default
> > strings. I don't think this would open all kind of deviations.
> 
> Not limited to the email format.  "git log" will always prefix
> "Author: " before the commit author name, "Date: " date with extra
> paddingbefore the author, indents the log message by 4 spaces, adds
> "Notes (refname):" before notes, and indentation is given before the
> contents of the notes.  There are many things, other than the
> presence of the "Notes" label, that people may want to customize in
> the output from the commands in the "git log" family, including "git
> format-patch".
>