From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: git notes: notes Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:48:58 +0100 Message-ID: <201001201049.01108.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <20100120050343.GA12860@gnu.kitenet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: Joey Hess X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 20 10:49:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NXXCA-0000bi-Jh for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:49:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752598Ab0ATJtZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:49:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752547Ab0ATJtZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:49:25 -0500 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.238]:59874 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751750Ab0ATJtY (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:49:24 -0500 Received: from CAS00.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.234) by gws01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.238) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.213.0; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:49:22 +0100 Received: from thomas.localnet (129.132.153.233) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.213.0; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:49:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop; KDE/4.3.90; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20100120050343.GA12860@gnu.kitenet.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Joey Hess wrote: > Just a quick note that the new notes feature can break things that parse > git log. Umm. git-log is porcelain and we're allowed to change it. Worse, even the user can change it in very significant ways, just try: git config format.pretty email git log For a better alternative, I'm afraid you'll either have to look to git-rev-list (which also takes --pretty) or 'git cat-file --batch'. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch