From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] pretty: format aliases Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:22:35 -0400 Message-ID: <20100426172235.GA626@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <1272210175-20484-1-git-send-email-wmpalmer@gmail.com> <20100425194800.GB14736@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20100425220955.GA25620@progeny.tock> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Will Palmer , git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, Cheng Renquan To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 26 19:22:46 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6S15-000144-SA for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:22:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751581Ab0DZRWi convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:22:38 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:38724 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750849Ab0DZRWh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:22:37 -0400 Received: (qmail 12410 invoked by uid 107); 26 Apr 2010 17:22:46 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:22:46 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:22:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100425220955.GA25620@progeny.tock> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:09:55PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Jeff King wrote: >=20 > > The config variables format.* are traditionally about format-patch.= I > > see we have format.pretty these days, too. >=20 > Yes, it as added in commit v1.5.5-rc0~57^2 (log/show/whatchanged: > introduce format.pretty configuration, 2008-03-02): >=20 > When running log/show/whatchanged from the command line, the user= may want > to use a preferred format without having to pass --pretty=3D= option > every time from the command line. This teaches these three comma= nds to > honor a new configuration variable, format.pretty. >=20 > The --pretty option given from the command line will override the= =20 > configured format. >=20 > I use it to mess with line wrapping; that it=E2=80=99s possible is ve= ry nice. > Thanks, Renquan. To be clear, I don't have any problem with the _functionality_. I just think it probably should have been log.pretty, or pretty.default or something. Too late now, though. -Peff