From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA451F66E for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2020 07:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726490AbgIGHGL (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2020 03:06:11 -0400 Received: from mail-gateway-shared10.cyon.net ([194.126.200.61]:41496 "EHLO mail-gateway-shared10.cyon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726384AbgIGHGL (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2020 03:06:11 -0400 Received: from s019.cyon.net ([149.126.4.28]) by mail-gateway-shared10.cyon.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1kFBE7-00066U-Ib for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:06:09 +0200 Received: from [10.20.10.232] (port=8001 helo=mail.cyon.ch) by s019.cyon.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1kFBE6-003PFg-Dp; Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:06:06 +0200 Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty: allow to override the built-in formats To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Denton Liu , git@vger.kernel.org References: <20200905192406.74411-1-dev+git@drbeat.li> <20200905195218.GA892287@generichostname> <8bb68268-8e4c-749e-b2e0-21b38b70c8bf@drbeat.li> From: Beat Bolli Message-ID: <259819c3-4d6c-e9ed-80c9-15ffa8feb6ad@drbeat.li> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 09:06:05 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - s019.cyon.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - drbeat.li X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: s019.cyon.net: authenticated_id: ig@drbeat.li X-Authenticated-Sender: s019.cyon.net: ig@drbeat.li X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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.