From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:07:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH for "next"] pretty-formats: add 'format:<string>'
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702230204190.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <45DE3D5C.5060105@xs4all.nl>

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> nitpick:
> 
>   \n
> 
> for newline would be nice. Similar for backslash, formfeed, alarm, etc.

Yes, I thought about that. But it would change behaviour (even if I don't 
think it would do serious damage; the only user of interpolate.[ch] I saw 
is git-daemon, and that does not need \n, I guess).

Besides, "%n" is

- more consistent,
- date(1) does it the same way, and
- you can put BS, FF, AL, etc. into the format string before passing 
  it as an option to git; git does not have to help you there.

Ciao,
Dscho