From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 11:36:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/WIP 0/9] for-each-ref format improvements
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On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I think this is the direction we should be taking.  Poorly
> thought-out stuff like -v and -vv should be deprecated.

Of course not. They are useful and user-friendly.

The only question is what should be the format by default.

> Also, I think it'll help to have a --pretty="format:<string>"
> equivalent to --format="<string>" so that we can introduce pretty
> names like oneline, short, medium, full.  We can eventually deprecate
> --format for consistency.

I don't see the point of --pretty. I think there should be shortcuts,
something like --hash for the SHA1s only, and --names for the refs
only, or something like that.

-- 
Felipe Contreras