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cosmetic bug: "git show --pretty:format" produces different output than "git show --format"

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FZFrancesc Zacarias <francesc@spotify.com>
Date
Jan 15, 2015, 13:55 UTC
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Hi!

I noticed that git produces differing output for "git show --pretty:format show" and "git show --format", even though the man page says that both are equivalent. "git show --format" always appends an empty line at the end. The only way I've found to get rid of that empty line in --format is by adding -s option.

So, "git show --pretty:format" and "git show -s --format" do produce the same output.

I can reproduce this issue in Ubuntu Trusty (git version 1.9.1) and Debian Jessie (git version 2.1.4).

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