Re: [PATCH v9 9/9] cocci: allow padding with `strbuf_addf()`

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Jan 11, 2022, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID: <Yd3kZv4Oym1h7zap@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <78aa8c28-d78b-7dee-6616-7708c363a244@web.de>

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 08:06:00PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:

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> Am 11.01.22 um 17:42 schrieb Taylor Blau:
> > I find it helpful to have an alias like:
> >
> >     $ git config alias.ll
> >     !git always --no-pager log -1 --pretty='tformat:%h (%s, %ad)' --date=short
> >
> > in my $HOME/.gitconfig so that I can easily format commits in the
> > standard way.
>
> You can shorten "--pretty='tformat:%h (%s, %ad)' --date=short" to
> "--pretty=reference" or "--format=reference".  For me that's easy enough
> to remember that I don't need an alias.

Ah, of course. Peff's copy likely predates `--pretty=reference`, and I inherited the cruft from him. Your suggestion has the nice benefit of colorizing the output when going to the terminal.

> Silly question, going further off-topic: What's "git always" doing?

Oops, I should have mentioned. It's another alias to ensure that the following command is always run in a Git repository (either the current one or a hand-picked default):

    $ git config alias.always
    !git rev-parse 2>/dev/null || cd ~/src/git; git

I often read mail out of my home directory, and the above works with my `:Git` command in Vim (which passes its arguments to `git always` and inserts the result back into my buffer). That way I don't have to first `:cd ~/src/git` and then `:Git ll xyz`, I can just `:Git ll xyz` and it does what I meant most of the time.

Thanks, Taylor