From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:26:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Specify a precision for the length of a subject string
Message-ID: <m2liq6go7y.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20111220220754.GC21353@llunet.cs.wisc.edu>

"Nathan W. Panike" <nathan.panike@gmail.com> writes:

> $ git log --pretty='%h %30s' d165204 -1

In C's formatted output this syntax denotes a minimum field width, not a
precision, so it will probably be surprising to many people.

Andreas.

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