From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:36:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty-format: add append line-feed format specifier
Message-ID: <xmqqtx4cbxsn.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140912044901.GC15519@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I dunno. I wrote that original set of lua pretty-format patches to try
> to stop the insanity once and for all. But I realized that I do not
> actually want to do anything complicated with the output formats, and
> "--oneline" and a few simple "--format" calls usually are enough.

Yeah, I share that exactly, and %+ and friends are meant to be on
this side of the line between "a few simple" and "complicated".  I
was not sure which side %if() falls myself, and while I still am not
sure, if I were asked to decide which today, I would probably say it
is on the "simple" side.