From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Andy AO via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>, Andy AO <zen96285@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe-doc:fix a obscure error description in the git log documentation
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 13:41:15 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5acad71-af41-ece2-6128-bca243f8f299@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.1030.git.git.1622440856607.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Hi Andy, welcome to Git mailing list!
On 31/05/21 13.00, Andy AO via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: zen96285 <zen96285@gmail.com>
>
> The git log documentation says "The default option is 'short'." This is wrong. After testing, the default value of '--decorate' is 'auto', not 'short'.
>
> There is no difference between 'auto' and 'short' in terminal, but there is a significant difference in how they behave in the shell.The information generated by the 'short' can be saved in shell variables, while the 'auto' can't.
>
Why are info generated with 'short' option (and not 'auto') can be
assigned to a variable?
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
> index 1bbf865a1b2d..37a4694b060a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ OPTIONS
> full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. If 'auto' is
> specified, then if the output is going to a terminal, the ref names
> are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref names are
> - shown. The default option is 'short'.
> + shown. The default option is 'auto'.
>
Looks OK to me, thanks.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-31 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-31 6:00 [PATCH] describe-doc:fix a obscure error description in the git log documentation Andy AO via GitGitGadget
2021-05-31 6:41 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2021-05-31 6:47 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-05-31 6:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-31 7:18 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-05-31 7:49 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-05-31 10:00 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2021-06-08 1:58 ` [PATCH] doc/log: correct default for --decorate Đoàn Trần Công Danh
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