Re: log --format existence of notes?

From: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com>
Date: Nov 16, 2024, 15:11 UTC
Message-ID: <D5NP6QUUBWBL.7OUG34RUIE2S@ferdinandy.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsersyrch.fsf@gitster.g>

On Sat Nov 16, 2024 at 01:06, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Bence Ferdinandy" <bence@ferdinandy.com> writes:
>
>> based on the man pages it doesn't seem possible, but maybe I'm missing something.
>>
>> I would like to put together a "log --format=" which is similar to --oneline,
>> but where if there's a note for the commit it's marked with e.g. a notebook
>> symbol. There's %N, but that prints the entire note, so it doesn't work well
>> with one commit per line.
>
> I do not think it is doable.  Unlike the format language in the
> for-each-ref/branch --list family of commands, the pretty-format
> language in the log family of commands lack more involved
> conditional formatting features.
>
> Unifying these two formatting languages to port features from one to
> the other would be needed, I guess.

Is this already on the roadmap with a plan on how to do it? It sounds like switching log format to the same formatting as the other commands would make life easier in the long run.

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> If we had a note support in the
> latter,  something like
>
> $ git branch -l --format='%(subject)%(if)%(note:amlog)%(then)📓%(end)'
>
> may have worked.

Conditional formatting definitely would sound useful for logs as well :)

On the other hand: would a quick win in analogy to "%G?" be considered? A "%N?" that either outputs a "N" for note and a "-" for no note? Or something like that. A bit ugly, but gets the job done.

Thanks, Bence