# git rev-list --pretty=format:"" issue 3 messages from 2013-04-17 to 2013-04-18. Participants: Forrest Galloway, Junio C Hamano, Thomas Rast. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/33527 ## Forrest Galloway, 2013-04-17 21:11 Subject: git rev-list --pretty=format:"" issue Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAH2yXXYggB%3DWv-w4B9qU%3DZxAuqjPVa5WRNZRnMRrWShkTp0UFg%40mail.gmail.com ``` git 1.8.2.1 on OSX(Mountain Lion) installed with Homebrew I am seeing an issue when trying to format the output from rev-list command. git log --pretty=format:"%H - %an, %ar : %s" When I attempt the above string, instead of printing to the shell, LESS is opened and the output is displayed there. Got the command from here: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-Commit-History git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s" The string above works fine when I change the %h to %H the issue shoes up. ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2013-04-17 22:11 Subject: Re: git rev-list --pretty=format:"" issue Message-ID: <7vk3o0erjq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vk3o0erjq.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Forrest Galloway writes: > git 1.8.2.1 on OSX(Mountain Lion) installed with Homebrew > > I am seeing an issue when trying to format the output from rev-list command. > git log --pretty=format:"%H - %an, %ar : %s" When I attempt the above > string, instead of printing to the shell, LESS is opened and the > output is displayed there. > > > Got the command from here: > http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-Commit-History > > git log --pretty=format:"%h - %an, %ar : %s" The string above works > fine when I change the %h to %H the issue shoes up. Actually, less is running in both cases. We give --quit-if-one-screen (-F) and --chop-long-lines (-S) by default when we run "less", unless you have your own LESS environment variable to override our choice, if your history is shorter than one screenful *and* if your output lines are narrower than your terminal, it exits after showing the output. By passing %H instead of %h, you make the output wider, and when viewing output with --chop-long-lines, less refuses to implicitly exit with --quit-if-one-screen, because you may want to look at the RHS end of the output with right/left arrow keys, and it cannot do so if it exits after showing the last line. If you do not want pager, run it with no-pager, like this: git --no-pager log ...your other parameters... ``` ## Thomas Rast, 2013-04-18 07:30 Subject: Re: git rev-list --pretty=format:"" issue Message-ID: <87bo9cxplv.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87bo9cxplv.fsf%40linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net In-Reply-To: <7vk3o0erjq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` Junio C Hamano writes: > Forrest Galloway writes: > >> git 1.8.2.1 on OSX(Mountain Lion) installed with Homebrew >> >> I am seeing an issue when trying to format the output from rev-list command. >> git log --pretty=format:"%H - %an, %ar : %s" When I attempt the above >> string, instead of printing to the shell, LESS is opened and the >> output is displayed there. [...] > > Actually, less is running in both cases. [...] > If you do not want pager, run it with no-pager, like this: > > git --no-pager log ...your other parameters... Also note that the pager is automatically disabled if you redirect stdout, so --no-pager is only required in some fringe cases, notably when attempting to run git under GDB. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch ```