Re: Considering add log.format and show.format configure option

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 26, 2022, 07:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Ywh9LUOf9sNlVy4a@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAOrge3pTP5WU3Z1HRLz7xqExwt7_n33FUkh9KQP2m6VyuA9sJw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 03:12:34PM +0800, Zang wrote:

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> Can we consider add such option to git-config
> 
> [format]
>     mylogformat = <...>
>     myshowformat = <...>
> [log]
>     format = mylogformat
> [show]
>     format = myshowformat
> 
> Which should work same as
> 
> git log --format=mylogformat
> git show --format=myshowformat

I don't think there is any reason not to add something like that. As you note, we already allow overriding the default for all of the log-family commands. So doing it for individual ones is not a stretch.

(I'm not sure if you know, the first half of your suggestion is already available as pretty.*, so this would just be adding log.format, etc, to override format.pretty. Possibly your "format' is just a typo of "pretty" there).

-Peff