From: Michael Dressel <michaeltilodressel@t-online.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:51:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] allow '%d' pretty format specifier to show decoration
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0808202138340.4070@pollux>
In-Reply-To: <20080820180034.GB32005@sigill.intra.peff.net>


On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> Previously, specifying
>
>  git log --pretty=format:'%H %s' --decorate
>
> would calculate decorations, but not show them. You can now
> do:
>
>  git log --pretty=format:'%H (%d) %s' --decorate
>
> to see them.
>

Wow that was fast! Thanks for the help.


For those who care:
I use it in a script to extract the log title of commits between certain
tags. And to compile a simple log history of what has changed between
tags. It was a bit more tricky than I initially thought it would be,
because of merges. So what I do basically is to do a git log A..B
where A and B are two of the tags I found using --decorate. My problem
was that my script got confused when I had braces in the log title. That was
why I wanted to use format in the first place. I know there is a web
interface to git which probably does all that, but I wanted to compile an as 
simple as possible text file.

Cheers,
Michael