Re: --no-decorate and %d in git-log(1)

Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:

I would imagine everybody would strongly mind as the scripts they have already written and have been using for years will be broken by such a change. So changing how %d works is a non-starter.

But that does not mean we cannot add a different placeholder that behaves that way. I wonder if it is the cleanest to extend the %(decoreate:<option>,...) notation, perhaps like

    $ git log --format="%(decorate:optional=yes)"

with and without --decorate/--no-decorate may be a way forward?