Re: [PATCH 5/5] log: add --commit-header option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2016, 17:49 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtwcyfvfz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160929083851.kx6itvrh4n2rttrx@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> This lets you stick a header right before a commit, but
> suppresses headers that are duplicates. This means you can
> do something like:
>
>   git log --graph --author-date-order --commit-header='== %as =='
>
> to get a marker in the graph whenever the day changes.

That's interesting. So it is not really "commit" header, but a header for groups of commits. Credits for realizing the usefulness of such grouping may go to Kyle, but the implementation is also brilliant ;-).

> This probably needs some refactoring around the setup of the
> pretty-print context.