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

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 22, 2011, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimLGqnxUygBUY6A=gpCa5gbT-g0L7ikW3Xbf+=_@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikGYOdJNGNXR1egPyMBhKpT=bby5fmr8MR9QTXt@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Hrvoje Nikšić <hniksic@gmail.com> wrote:

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

In the tformat section is:

 "In addition, any unrecognized string that has a % in it is
interpreted as if it has tformat: in front of it."

Of course, you need to know to read that far into the man page to find that sentence, and the earlier summary of --pretty never gives any hint to do so.

Mind submitting a documentation patch?

j.