Re: git-log --format missing trailing newline character

From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: Dec 26, 2024, 17:06 UTC
Message-ID: <jwatyfdnn65ot2s3i4uhrseh5kbkudsqv2a6bzmz2xncdzly6v@7gi4gmajls3g>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4j2qzb6d.fsf@gitster.g>

Hi Junio,

On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 08:00:42AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 10:09:14PM GMT, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> On Dez 23 2024, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Anyway, it feels awkward that git-log(1) skips the last newline whith
> >> > --format=format.  Should that be fixed?
> >> 
> >> If you want terminator semantics, use tformat: instead of format:.
> 
> Or, "--format=%H" should do the right thing, as that is a mere
> short-hand for "--pretty=tformat:%H".

Hmmm. So many times having read that part of the manual, and I had never noticed that. I had never seen that tformat existed, and even less that the default was it (when there's %placeholder string). I had always read 'format' instead of 'tformat'. :)

Thanks!

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