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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 21, 2017, 21:47 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8tozfc7a.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170221210808.3ryri33ve7w7csdp@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> The for-each-ref formatting code has %(if), but it's not unified with
> the commit-format ones.
>
> So the best I could come up with is:
>
>   git config pretty.twoline '%C(auto)%h %s%C(auto)%+d'
>   git log --format=twoline
>
> which looks like:
>
>   80ba04ed9 Merge branch 'svn-escape-backslash' of git://bogomips.org/git-svn
>    (origin/master, origin/HEAD)
>   20769079d Git 2.12-rc2
>    (tag: v2.12.0-rc2)
>   076c05393 Hopefully the final batch of mini-topics before the final
>   c5b22b819 Merge branch 'jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion'
>   62fef5c56 Merge branch 'dp/submodule-doc-markup-fix'
>   1f73ff080 Merge branch 'jk/reset-to-break-a-commit-doc-updated'

Yeah, I had a similar thought to use something around "%n%-d", but

 $ git log --format='%h%n%-d%C(auto) %s %C(auto)'

is not it.

I guess we could pile on another hack to make the sign between % and the format specifier cumulative and then "%n%-+d" may do what we want, but we need a true %(if)...%(then)...%(else)...%(end) support if we really want to do this thing properly.