From: Eric Sunshine Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:07:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] pretty: implement 'reference' format Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <470a2b0f4fd450af1d9c9d27ec0f0c91ea59117f.1573764280.git.liu.denton@gmail.com> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:47 PM Denton Liu wrote: > [...] > Since this format is so commonly used, standardize it as a pretty > format. > [...] > Signed-off-by: Denton Liu > --- > diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt > @@ -63,6 +63,16 @@ This is designed to be as compact as possible. > +This format is useful for referring to other commits when writing a new > +commit message. It uses the following canned user format: > +`%C(auto)%h (%s, %as)`. This means it will not respect options that > +change the output format such as `--date` `--no-abbrev-commit`, and > +`--walk-reflogs`. Missing comma between `--date` and `--no-abbrev-commit`.