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From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Make "terminator behavior" the default with --pretty=format: ?
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:43:59 +0000
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On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 16:43 +0100, Hrvoje Nik=C5=A1i=C4=87 wrote:
> Is there a reason, other than backward compatibility, for
> "--prety=3Dformat:" to have separator rather than terminator semantic=
s?
>=20

The "default behaviour" is the behaviour which occurs when one /doesn't=
/
specify something. For example: --pretty=3D"%H %an" uses terminator
semantics.

I agree that --pretty=3Dsformat: might be less ambiguous, though.