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Re: [RFC PATCH] show decorations at the end of the line

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 13, 2017, 21:01 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> And if you actually want decorations, and you're parsing them, you are
> *not* going to script it with "--oneline --decorations", because the
> end result is basically impossible to parse already (because it's
> ambiguous - think about parentheses in the commit message).

OK. So let's wait to hear from others if they like the "obviously" improved output. Even though I find the decorations indispensable in my "git log" output, I personally do not have much preference either way, as my screen is often wide enough ;-)

Thanks. We'd need to update the tests that expects the old style output, though.

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