From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>,
Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] make interpret-trailers useful for parsing
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:42:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd1834645.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170810072822.rj6y6zcqhyfz4yi7@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 10 Aug 2017 03:28:22 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> > The above example made me wonder if we also want a format specifier
>> > to do the above without piping, but it turns out that we already
>> > have "log --format=%(trailers)", so we are good ;-)
>>
>> I was going to say, I thought we had a way to get trailers for a
>> commit via the pretty format, since that is what i used in the past.
>
> I do like that you could get the trailers for many commits in a single
> invocation. That doesn't matter for my current use-case, but obviously
> piping through O(n) interpret-trailers invocations is a bad idea.
> But there are a few difficulties with using %(trailers) for this,...
I think it is clear to you, but it may not be clear to others, that
I did not mean to say "because 'log --format' already knows about
it, this change to interpret-trailers is unnecessary".
> For (1) I think many callers would prefer to see the original
> formatting. Maybe we'd need a %(trailers:normalize) or something.
Thanks; that is exactly the line of thought I had in the back of my
head without even realizing when I brought up %(trailers) format
element.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-10 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-09 12:21 [PATCH 0/5] make interpret-trailers useful for parsing Jeff King
2017-08-09 12:22 ` [PATCH 1/5] trailer: put process_trailers() options into a struct Jeff King
2017-08-09 12:24 ` [PATCH 2/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only the trailers Jeff King
2017-08-09 17:52 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-09 17:55 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-09 18:35 ` Jonathan Tan
2017-08-10 7:40 ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 12:24 ` [PATCH 3/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers Jeff King
2017-08-09 18:18 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-10 7:32 ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 17:27 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-10 17:33 ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 17:38 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-10 18:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-09 18:38 ` Jonathan Tan
2017-08-10 7:36 ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 12:25 ` [PATCH 4/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to normalize output Jeff King
2017-08-09 12:26 ` [PATCH 5/5] interpret-trailers: add --parse convenience option Jeff King
2017-08-09 18:20 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-10 7:59 ` Jeff King
2017-08-09 17:19 ` [PATCH 0/5] make interpret-trailers useful for parsing Junio C Hamano
2017-08-10 7:04 ` Jacob Keller
2017-08-10 7:28 ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-08-13 19:03 ` Jacob Keller
2017-08-10 8:02 ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 8:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] trailer: put process_trailers() options into a struct Jeff King
2017-08-10 8:03 ` [PATCH 2/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only the trailers Jeff King
2017-08-10 8:03 ` [PATCH 3/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers Jeff King
2017-08-10 8:03 ` [PATCH 4/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to normalize output Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:35 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-10 18:37 ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 19:39 ` Christian Couder
2017-08-10 19:42 ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 20:26 ` Christian Couder
2017-08-10 19:44 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-10 21:06 ` Christian Couder
2017-08-10 21:10 ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 23:02 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-08-10 23:10 ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 23:36 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-08-11 7:02 ` Christian Couder
2017-08-11 9:06 ` Jeff King
2017-08-11 19:02 ` Christian Couder
2017-08-10 8:03 ` [PATCH 5/5] interpret-trailers: add --parse convenience option Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:03 ` [PATCH 0/5] make interpret-trailers useful for parsing Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:03 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] trailer: put process_trailers() options into a struct Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:04 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only the trailers Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:28 ` Stefan Beller
2017-08-10 18:31 ` Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-10 18:04 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:04 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] interpret-trailers: add an option to normalize output Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:04 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] interpret-trailers: add --parse convenience option Jeff King
2017-08-10 18:35 ` [PATCH 0/5] make interpret-trailers useful for parsing Stefan Beller
2017-08-10 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-15 10:22 ` [PATCH v4 0/8] trailer parsing via interpret-trailers and %(trailers) Jeff King
2017-08-15 10:23 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] trailer: put process_trailers() options into a struct Jeff King
2017-08-15 10:23 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only the trailers Jeff King
2017-08-15 10:23 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers Jeff King
2017-08-15 10:23 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] interpret-trailers: add an option to unfold values Jeff King
2017-08-15 10:23 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] interpret-trailers: add --parse convenience option Jeff King
2017-08-15 11:26 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-16 8:20 ` Jeff King
2017-08-17 18:19 ` Martin Ågren
2017-08-15 10:23 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] pretty: move trailer formatting to trailer.c Jeff King
2017-08-15 10:24 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] t4205: refactor %(trailers) tests Jeff King
2017-08-15 10:25 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] pretty: support normalization options for %(trailers) Jeff King
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