From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2020 21:59:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty: allow to override the built-in formats
Message-ID: <xmqqeene36t7.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200905195218.GA892287@generichostname>

Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:

> Hmm, I'm not sure how I feel about being able to override formats other
> than "reference".

Is the idea to introduce a parallel namespace to pretty.<name>?  I
am not sure why that is a good idea than, say a single variable that
says "to me, pretty.<name> would override even the built-in names".

I am not sure how I feel about being able to override built-in
formats in the first place, though.

After all, pretty.<name> were introduced so that user-defined ones
can be invoked with an equal ease as the built-in ones, but
overriding common understanding among the users of the tool is a
different story.