From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] log --oneline: put decoration at the end of the line
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:42:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120919234226.GA27626@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr4pxegec.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 04:34:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Yeah, I do not think it is likely. Among the in-tree scripts,
> > git-stash does use rev-list --oneline but the purpose of the call
> > exactly is to grab a human readable one line summary, and it will be
> > happy with any change to make --oneline more human readble.
>
> Having said that, one of my often used alias is
>
> [alias] recent = log --branches --oneline --no-merges --decorate --since=3.weeks
>
> to help me see what topics in flight may potentially interact with
> an incoming patch, when deciding on which commit to base the patch
> on. Pushing the decoration at the end to let it fall off the right
> edge of the screen severely reduces the usefulness of it and defeats
> the point of using --decorate, at least for this use.
>
> I could use --source instead, though, if it is not moved by the
> patch.
If you are particular about the exact format, how about using
--format="%h%d %s" instead?
Obviously Duy could do the same to achieve his format, but I think there
is still value in considering what the default for --oneline should be.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-19 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-19 11:52 [PATCH] log --oneline: put decoration at the end of the line Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-19 18:20 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 20:05 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 23:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 23:42 ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-09-20 0:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 10:43 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-20 12:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] New pretty format color specifiers %C+ and %C- Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-20 12:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] pretty: share code between format_decoration and show_decorations Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-20 12:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] pretty: support placeholders %C+ and %C- Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-20 14:38 ` [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-20 16:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21 8:55 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-21 17:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-23 8:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-25 0:27 ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 13:03 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-20 16:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] pretty: support placeholders %C+ and %C- Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 17:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21 8:36 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
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