Re: Simplify '--prett=xyz' options

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
>
>> Granted, it makes it equivalent to --pretty=tformat:foo, but isn't
>> tformat the better choice in many cases?
>
> Not really. Look at what happens with
>
> 	git log --stat --pretty=format:%s
>
> and then try tformat instead. 'tformat' is broken, as is our current 
> --format=%s.
>
> In other words, all of that crud is totally illogical, and our "short 
> versions" (--oneline and --format=) were done entirely incorrectly (well, 
> --oneline probably has the _right_ semantics, and --pretty=oneline is just 
> wrong, but whatever).

If you try that without --stat, i.e.

    $ git log -4 --pretty=format:%s | cat -e
    $ git log -4 --pretty=tformat:%s | cat -e

I suspect you may then find that --pretty=format (not --pretty=tformat) is
broken.