# git log --summary outputs extra newlines inconsistently 2 messages from 2011-02-03 to 2011-02-04. Participants: Anders Kaseorg. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/26406 ## Anders Kaseorg, 2011-02-03 23:33 Subject: git log --summary outputs extra newlines inconsistently Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.2.02.1102021842550.12561%40dr-wily.mit.edu ``` ‘git log --summary’ seems to output a newline after every non-merge commit. $ git log --summary --pretty=format:'%h %s' 3c0eee3 Linux 2.6.37 65f4288 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 9fc3bbb ipv4/route.c: respect prefsrc for local routes 8a87694 remove trim_fs method from Documentation/filesystems/Locking 989d873 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm d9a1abe arch/mn10300/kernel/irq.c: fix build 867c202 ima: fix add LSM rule bug … Oddly, those newlines show up even with -z! $ git log --summary --pretty=format:%h -z 3c0eee3 ^@65f4288^@9fc3bbb ^@8a87694 ^@989d873^@d9a1abe ^@867c202 … This makes the output annoying to parse in both cases. (I’m using Git 1.7.4-rc2.) Anders ``` ## Anders Kaseorg, 2011-02-04 18:57 Subject: Re: git log --summary outputs extra newlines inconsistently Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.2.02.1102041351490.32500%40dr-wily.mit.edu In-Reply-To: ``` On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > ‘git log --summary’ seems to output a newline after every non-merge > > commit. > > I suspect you want tformat. Same problem. $ git log --summary --pretty=tformat:'%h %s' 3c0eee3 Linux 2.6.37 65f4288 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 9fc3bbb ipv4/route.c: respect prefsrc for local routes 8a87694 remove trim_fs method from Documentation/filesystems/Locking 989d873 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm d9a1abe arch/mn10300/kernel/irq.c: fix build 867c202 ima: fix add LSM rule bug Also, tformat doesn’t seem to work at all with -z (it gives identical results with and without -z). Anders ```