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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] show decorations at the end of the line
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:01:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7f4tdcua.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFy-vvOBu5Y4KDeteUyK-7U7yTa1HoqHo+hME1=8bq7Xhw@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:33:18 -0800")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> And if you actually want decorations, and you're parsing them, you are
> *not* going to script it with "--oneline --decorations", because the
> end result is basically impossible to parse already (because it's
> ambiguous - think about parentheses in the commit message).

OK.  So let's wait to hear from others if they like the "obviously"
improved output.  Even though I find the decorations indispensable
in my "git log" output, I personally do not have much preference
either way, as my screen is often wide enough ;-)

Thanks.  We'd need to update the tests that expects the old style
output, though.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-13 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-11 18:02 [RFC PATCH] show decorations at the end of the line Linus Torvalds
2017-02-11 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-13  8:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-13 19:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-13 21:01       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-02-13 22:38         ` Jeff King
2017-02-14 22:11         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-15  0:29           ` Jeff King
2017-02-18  5:27             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-19 22:33               ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-19 23:03                 ` Jacob Keller
2017-02-20  0:46                   ` Jeff King
2017-02-20  1:15                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-20  1:48                     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-21 20:11                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-21 20:40                         ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-21 21:08                           ` Jeff King
2017-02-21 21:47                             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-21 22:24                               ` Jeff King
2017-02-14 20:36     ` Stephan Beyer

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