Re: Missing git options

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Feb 5, 2018, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaSY=j23Nn+UH5DGJCptTow7ZpEko2DFzuuAgN2e1BxSQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AD196D8E-04DB-4274-ADEB-D914A79628B3@schwarz-online.org>

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 1:12 AM, Martin Häcker <mhaecker@schwarz-online.org> wrote:

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> Hi there,
>
> I just recently learned that not all command line switches seem to automatically correlate to options in the git configuration.
>
> This seems something that should be relatively easy to fix.
>
> What I’m most missing is
>
> — snip —
> [log]
>         graph = true
>         patch = true
> — snap —
>
> which would / should correspond to `git log —graph —patch`.
>
> What do you guys think?

Feel free to send patches adding these options.

I had the impression that git-log was a pseudo-plumbing, despite it being explicitly marked porcelain as there is no good plumbing alternative. But as we already have things like log.date, log.decorate, that change the output of git-log, I think a patch or graph option would be ok.

Thanks, Stefan