Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 24, 2006, 12:41 UTC
Message-ID: <ek6p6j$r6p$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4566E512.4010405@xs4all.nl>

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski escreveu:
> 
>>>   - --pretty option with wholly uninformative options full, medium, 
>>> short, raw.  It's not even documented what each option does.
>> 
>> And 'oneline' and undocumented 'email'. True, git lacks documentation (and
>> this one of main complaints in git survey).
> 
> The recently posted patch documenting is an improvement, but why not
> add an option so you can do
> 
>   --format 'committer %c\nauthor %a\n'
>   
> this catches all combinations, and is easier for scripting.
> 
> Right now, I have some scripts that have to munge log output with
> regular expressions to strip out the "author:"  prefixes.

If we ever implemented this, I'd rather to separate what is now of format parsing in git-for-each-ref (although I'd like to make it more like rpm's --query-format argument, with %-n{header}, %[array] etc.) into separate module, and reuse it for git-log and friends --pretty/--format handling.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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