Re: log --pretty accepts incomplete pre-defined formats
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Sidhant Sharma <tigerkid001@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Recently while playing around with git log, I realized that it is possible to
> > pass incomplete (pre-defined) format names. For example, it is possible to use
> > `git log --pretty=one` instead of oneline and it would still output the logs in
> > oneline formatting. Same goes for other formats such as 'raw', 'short' and others.
> > I looked at the code and it seems that it is intentionally kept so. It this so?
> > I'm curious to know the reason behind keeping this so.
>
> I actually am curious why somebody wants to know, as more modern
> parts of the system allow option names abbreviated to unique
> prefixes. "Why can't I say 'log --pret=oneline' when I can say
> 'commit --ame'?" might be a more plausible puzzlement (and the
> answer is "hysterical raisins"). Anyway, this seems to come from
> 6cdfd179 (commit: allow --pretty= args to be abbreviated,
> 2006-05-14),
Yes, being able to abbreviate 'raw', 'short', etc is intentional to save keystrokes since I was suffering from RSI at the time.
Being able to do "--pret=r" would be nice nowadays if the parsing in revision.c were modernized. However, the completions in contrib/ also expands "--pretty=" nowadays, so now I care less about shorthand options.
> which was slightly tightend by aacd404e (Fix some
> documentation typos and grammar, 2007-02-02).
Sidhant Sharma