From: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty: allow to override the built-in formats
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 09:06:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <259819c3-4d6c-e9ed-80c9-15ffa8feb6ad@drbeat.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtuwa13gt.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
On 07.09.20 08:54, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Finally, a non-built-in name to express the format specific to a
> project can already be defined and used pretty easily; e.g. the
> "pretty.kernel" format may say %h ("%s") and can be used like
>
> $ git show -s --pretty=kernel HEAD
>
> with the same ease as the 'reference' format.
>
> $ git show -s --pretty=reference HEAD
This would work fine if there wasn't also gitk, which has a "Copy commit
reference" function. Without a common name for the format in Git and
gitk, we lose the single point of truth.
The one alternative I can see is to make the format name configurable in
gitk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-07 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-05 19:24 [PATCH] pretty: allow to override the built-in formats Beat Bolli
2020-09-05 19:52 ` Denton Liu
2020-09-06 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-07 5:36 ` Beat Bolli
2020-09-07 6:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-07 7:06 ` Beat Bolli [this message]
2020-09-08 13:53 ` Jeff King
2020-09-08 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-09 9:08 ` Jeff King
2020-09-09 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
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