From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:49:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Format for %d includes unwanted preceding space
Message-ID: <xmqq1sztl3d1.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <a3eed8fb-505c-e9c1-6fb6-944d9df2f15d@hale.ee>

"Ravi (Tom) Hale" <ravi@hale.ee> writes:

> The log --format="%d" includes preceding space:
>
> $ git log -n1 --format="XX%dXX" HEAD
> XX (HEAD -> master)XX
>
> I know of no other %<token> that is output in this way.

That is primarily because %d predates %[-+ ]<placeholder> mechanism,
I think.  It is too late to redefine what "%d" means and force all
users to update their script to use "% d" instead, unfortunately.