From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:26:41 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] merge-file: fix BUG when --object-id is used in a worktree Message-ID: In-Reply-To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" writes: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2026, at 07:44, Mathias Rav wrote: >>[snip] >> As for the quotes in the commit references, I use gitk's "Copy commit >> reference" daily and am personally used to the quotes. Since >> SubmittingPatches seems to give equal preference to --pretty=reference and >> "Copy commit reference" I didn't think that the quotes were a problem. > >> (I wonder how controversial it would be to remove the quotes in gitk.) > > Turns out that this has been attempted least once before: > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/1472230741-5161-1-git-send-email-dev+git@drbeat.li/ True. Perhaps something like this patch makes it clear that what the gitk command gives and what --pretty=reference gives are not identical, to avoid confusion like this? I dunno. Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index e270ccbe85..fad0b41af0 100644 --- c/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ w/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ date)", like this: .... The "Copy commit reference" command of gitk can be used to obtain this -format (with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes), or this +format (but with the subject enclosed in an extra pair of double-quotes), or this invocation of `git show`: ....