Re: [PATCH] Typo in RelNotes.

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:06:13PM -0700, Tarmigan wrote:

> > Maybe I am blind, but I don't see a typo. Are you referring to tformat,
> > which looks like a typo, but is actually correct?
> 
> Oops you're right.  That's what I was thinking of.  Junio's commit
> message explains it well.  Should something be added to the man page
> about it?

How about this? I worry that the perl in the example is unnecessarily
complex, but I couldn't think of a simpler way to show "in this one, the
trailing newline is missing". So I am open to suggestions.

-- >8 --
document --pretty=tformat: option

This was introduced in 4da45bef, but never documented
anywhere.
---
 Documentation/pretty-formats.txt |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index e8bea3e..14a2665 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -124,3 +124,24 @@ The placeholders are:
 - '%m': left, right or boundary mark
 - '%n': newline
 - '%x00': print a byte from a hex code
+
+* 'tformat:'
++
+The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it
+provides "terminator" semantics instead of "separator" semantics. In
+other words, each commit has the message separator (usually a newline)
+appended, rather than placed between entries. This means that the final
+entry of a single-line format will be properly terminated with a new
+line, just as the "oneline" format does. For example:
++
+---------------------
+$ git log -2 --pretty=format:%h 4da45bef \
+  | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
+4da45be
+7134973 -- NO NEWLINE
+
+$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \
+  | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
+4da45be
+7134973
+---------------------
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