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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: "Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Cornelius <c.r1@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Plumbing commands (was: Bug report - git show <tagname> together with --pretty=format)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:47:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myarszat.fsf_-_@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0904080937v634c5b69rffa7a737f22a3768@mail.gmail.com> ("Santi Béjar"'s message of "Wed\, 8 Apr 2009 18\:37\:21 +0200")

On 2009-04-08 18:37 (+0200), Santi Béjar wrote:

> In addition to what Michael said, you should use the plumbing commands
> instead of the porcelain (see man git). They are specifically for use
> with scripts and parse their output. The output from the porcelain
> commands can change.

Hmm, I've been using a command like this in a script:

    date=$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%ai $REV)

Would it be better to change it to

    date=$(git rev-list -1 --pretty=format:%ai $REV | sed -e 1d)

or something else?

      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-08 12:56 Bug report - git show <tagname> together with --pretty=format Cornelius
2009-04-08 15:28 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-04-08 16:37   ` Santi Béjar
2009-04-08 19:47     ` Teemu Likonen [this message]

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