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From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com>
To: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Conditional newline in pretty format
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:28:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHd499DiCi3FJb9qWJNBNKyVQg_zYMgJRuYcH_pOP3LnGwk5Tg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I have the following alias:

```
[alias]
    release-notes = log --no-merges --pretty=format:'* %s%n%n%w(100,2,2)%b'
```

With a branch `topic` checked out, I run it like so:

    $ git release-notes origin..

This gives me the "release notes" on my branch. The goal is to have it
formatted as a bullet-point list in markdown format so I can just copy
& paste this output into Github, Bitbucket, or other sites and have it
already set up for render correctly.

It works perfectly right now except for the case where `%b` is empty.
In that case, I just want one newline after `%s` instead of 2. Is
there a way to make my second `%n` conditional on `%b` having a value?

             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-17 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-17 15:28 Robert Dailey [this message]
2020-03-17 15:37 ` Conditional newline in pretty format Robert Dailey
2020-03-17 17:18   ` Jeff King
2020-03-17 17:27     ` Robert Dailey
2020-03-17 17:55       ` Jeff King

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