Re: log --format existence of notes?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 16, 2024, 00:06 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqsersyrch.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <D5N39IJA0WDQ.2WH1MNIP77X2J@ferdinandy.com>

"Bence Ferdinandy" <bence@ferdinandy.com> writes:

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> based on the man pages it doesn't seem possible, but maybe I'm missing something.
>
> I would like to put together a "log --format=" which is similar to --oneline,
> but where if there's a note for the commit it's marked with e.g. a notebook
> symbol. There's %N, but that prints the entire note, so it doesn't work well
> with one commit per line.

I do not think it is doable. Unlike the format language in the for-each-ref/branch --list family of commands, the pretty-format language in the log family of commands lack more involved conditional formatting features.

Unifying these two formatting languages to port features from one to the other would be needed, I guess. If we had a note support in the latter, something like

$ git branch -l --format='%(subject)%(if)%(note:amlog)%(then)📓%(end)'

may have worked.