Considering add log.format and show.format configure option

Hi forks,

People including me are asking feature to use different format for log and show:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20579889/different-pretty-formats-for-git-log-and-git-show https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37898232/make-different-pretty-settings-for-git-log-and-git-show

Can we consider add such option to git-config

[format]
    mylogformat = <...>
    myshowformat = <...>
[log]
    format = mylogformat
[show]
    format = myshowformat

Which should work same as

git log --format=mylogformat git show --format=myshowformat

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 03:12:34PM +0800, Zang wrote:

I don't think there is any reason not to add something like that. As you note, we already allow overriding the default for all of the log-family commands. So doing it for individual ones is not a stretch.

(I'm not sure if you know, the first half of your suggestion is already available as pretty.*, so this would just be adding log.format, etc, to override format.pretty. Possibly your "format' is just a typo of "pretty" there).

-Peff

Zang <zealot0630@gmail.com> writes:

We do not pay attention to SO, and it is good you came here.

I think something along this line was raised as a possible enhancement on the list earlier. If we were to do so, we should not limit the enhancement only to "log/show" but to all the commands in the "log" family, and similarly, not only to "format", but to many common options.

Patches welcome.

Thanks.