From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:29:12 GMT
Subject: Re: --no-decorate and %d in git-log(1)
Message-ID: <xmqq4in4brt3.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <aZ81X6ERyx5fcm6L@devuan>

Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:

> Would you mind changing %d to be affected by --decorate=?

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?