Re: Make "terminator behavior" the default with --pretty=format: ?

From: Hrvoje Nikšić <hniksic@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 22, 2011, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikGYOdJNGNXR1egPyMBhKpT=bby5fmr8MR9QTXt@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1298393039.2286.14.camel@wpalmer.simply-domain>

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 16:43 +0100, Hrvoje Nikšić wrote:
>> Is there a reason, other than backward compatibility, for
>> "--prety=format:" to have separator rather than terminator semantics?
>
> The "default behaviour" is the behaviour which occurs when one /doesn't/
> specify something. For example: --pretty="%H %an" uses terminator
> semantics.

I didn't know that you could simply omit the "format:". Is it documented anywhere? The docs say:

       --pretty[=<format>], --format[=<format>]
           Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given
format, where <format> can be one of oneline, short,
           medium, full, fuller, email, raw and format:<string>. When
omitted, the format defaults to medium.