Re: 'show' pretty %B without a diff

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 21, 2010, 12:56 UTC
Message-ID: <m38vzjl1yr.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20101221104641.GA8600@external.screwed.box>

Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org> writes:

> 2010/12/20 10:05:16 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> => To Peter Vereshagin :

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> JCH> If your script is _not_ parsing the git command output, but is just
> JCH> blindly spewing it out to the invoking user, it is Ok to use "show",
> JCH> though.  Check "-s" option to the "show" command in that case.
> 
> "show" command doesn't seem to have "-s" switch. Skip it up though ;-)

Hmmm... true, unfortunately it is described in hidden corner: when git-show is used to display commits, it accepts diff family options... including `-s' described in git-diff-tree manpage:

  -s::
        By default, 'git diff-tree --stdin' shows differences,
        either in machine-readable form (without '-p') or in patch
        form (with '-p').  This output can be suppressed.  It is
        only useful with '-v' flag.

  -v::
        This flag causes 'git diff-tree --stdin' to also show
        the commit message before the differences.

I guess that `-s' should be present also in git-show manpage.

There is also `git log -1` (or `git log -1 --no-walk` for paranoid).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
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