Re: cosmetic bug: "git show --pretty:format" produces different output than "git show --format"

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

Francesc Zacarias schrieb am 15.01.2015 um 14:55:
> Hi!
> 
> I noticed that git produces differing output for
> "git show --pretty:format show" and "git show --format", even though
> the man page says that both are equivalent.
> "git show --format" always appends an empty line at the end. The only
> way I've found to get rid of that empty line in --format is by adding
> -s option.
> 
> So, "git show --pretty:format" and "git show -s --format" do produce
> the same output.
> 
> I can reproduce this issue in Ubuntu Trusty (git version 1.9.1) and
> Debian Jessie (git version 2.1.4).
> 

The first part of the man page is a bit sloppy, but refers to the FORMAT
section. There, it says that "--pretty" is equivalent to
"--pretty=tformat:" which is different from "--pretty=format:".

Unfortunately, "--format" seems to be parsed as ("--pretty" and
therefore?) "--pretty=tformat:" which I consider a bug.

Michael