Re: cosmetic bug: "git show --pretty:format" produces different output than "git show --format"

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

"tformat:" was introduced to fix "format:, because many people found the latter hard to use, probably because most of the time they wanted to use the feature to show one-line-per-commit and a LF after each record ("terminator semantics" where 't' in "tformat:" comes from) made more sense in that context, compared to a LF between each record ("delimiter semantics").

Of course, "format:" that uses the delimiter semantics has its uses; after all, the delimiter semantics is what is used for canned formats, other than --oneline.

It was a deliberate design decision to make "--format=<string>" as a short-hand for "--pretty=tformat:<string>", favouring "tformat:" over "format:", AFAIK. To use the facility to show a break between each (likely multi-line) record, use "--pretty=format:<string>", not "--pretty=tformat:<string>" aka "--format=<string>".