From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Cc: lolligerhans@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org,
Pushkar Singh <pushkarkumarsingh1970@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] git log --graph --pretty=format misplaces graph characters when -p given
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:49:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo6m6yiov.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALnO6CCqwnTcQWSUBPV+o3OO=sMZJjj6jRuMNnBjV3F-dYx+0w@mail.gmail.com> (D. Ben Knoble's message of "Mon, 2 Feb 2026 15:27:22 -0500")
"D. Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 11:22 AM <lolligerhans@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Git can pretty-print a commit graph with git log --graph and a custom --pretty
>> format. I alias some uses of git log --graph --pretty, to which I then want to
>> manually add "-p" upon invocation.
>> ...
> Yep. I think this is because format:%h doesn't add a newline by
> default. With tformat:%h or format:%h%n, the issue goes away. (See
> "git help log" under "tformat:"—this is probably what you want in
> order to get "oneline"-style format.)
FWIW, "git log --pretty=tformat:<whatever>" has a handy short-hand
that is "git log --format=<whatever>" ;-)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-02 16:21 [BUG] git log --graph --pretty=format misplaces graph characters when -p given lolligerhans
2026-02-02 17:27 ` Pushkar Singh
2026-02-02 20:27 ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-02-02 20:49 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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