Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] docs/pretty-formats: add %(count) and %(total)

["Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2026, at 23:38, Mirko Faina wrote:
> When --commit-list-format has been introduced to format-patch, two new

The past tense here is wrong.

s/has been/was/

> placeholders have been added to the PRETTY FORMATS code without being

s/have been/were/

> documented. Do so now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>
> ---
>  Documentation/pretty-formats.adoc | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.adoc
> b/Documentation/pretty-formats.adoc
> index 5405e57a60..67dc0f2a82 100644
> --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.adoc
> @@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ The placeholders are:
>  	linkgit:git-rev-list[1])
>  +%d+:: ref names, like the --decorate option of linkgit:git-log[1]
>  +%D+:: ref names without the " (", ")" wrapping.
> ++%(count)+:: the number of a patch within a patch series. Used only in
> +	`--commit-list-format` in `format-patch`
> ++%(total)+:: the number of tatal patches in a patch series. Used only

s/the number of tatal patches/the total number of patches/ ?

> in
> +	`--commit-list-format` in `format-patch`
>  ++%(decorate++`[:<option>,...]`++)++::
>  ref names with custom decorations. The `decorate` string may be
> followed by a
>  colon and zero or more comma-separated options. Option values may
> contain
> --
> 2.53.0.1018.g2bb0e51243