Re: [RFC PATCH] show decorations at the end of the line

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:40:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> In fact, I played around with some formats, and the one I lines the
> most was actually one that split the line for decorations, but that
> one was admittedly pretty funky. It gives output like
> 
>   b9df16a4c (HEAD -> master)
>             pathspec: don't error out on all-exclusionary pathspec patterns
>   91a491f05 pathspec magic: add '^' as alias for '!'
>   c8e05fd6d ls-remote: add "--diff" option to show only refs that differ
>   20769079d (tag: v2.12.0-rc2, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
>             Git 2.12-rc2
>   076c05393 Hopefully the final batch of mini-topics before the final
>   c5b22b819 Merge branch 'jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion'
>   62fef5c56 Merge branch 'dp/submodule-doc-markup-fix'
>   1f73ff080 Merge branch 'jk/reset-to-break-a-commit-doc-updated'
>   bf5f11918 Merge branch 'jk/reset-to-break-a-commit-doc'
>   e048a257b Merge branch 'js/mingw-isatty'
> 
> (which looks better with colorization than it looks in the email).
> 
> But I'm not even going to send out that patch, because it was such an
> atrocious hack to line things up.

I was going to suggest a custom format string that does the same, but
what we have is not _quite_ flexible enough.

You can use "%+d" to insert a newline only when "%d" is not empty. But
it always inserts _before_ the decoration, not after. Likewise, you
cannot say "if it's not empty, then insert %d and a leading tab".

The for-each-ref formatting code has %(if), but it's not unified with
the commit-format ones.

So the best I could come up with is:

  git config pretty.twoline '%C(auto)%h %s%C(auto)%+d'
  git log --format=twoline

which looks like:

  80ba04ed9 Merge branch 'svn-escape-backslash' of git://bogomips.org/git-svn
   (origin/master, origin/HEAD)
  20769079d Git 2.12-rc2
   (tag: v2.12.0-rc2)
  076c05393 Hopefully the final batch of mini-topics before the final
  c5b22b819 Merge branch 'jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion'
  62fef5c56 Merge branch 'dp/submodule-doc-markup-fix'
  1f73ff080 Merge branch 'jk/reset-to-break-a-commit-doc-updated'

-Peff