Re: 'show' pretty %B without a diff

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org> writes:

> JCH> Especially if you are doing a script, you probably should be using
> JCH> "cat-file commit" anyway, no?
>
> cat-file doesn't seem to support formatting option?

That is exactly why I suggested "cat-file", as you are scripting.  We
reserve the right to change the human-visible formatting output from
Porcelain commands like "show" any time to make it "prettier" (we may
start coloring strings that look like object names in the commit log
message in "git show" output, for example), while giving scripts more
stable output through the plumbing commands like "cat-file" so that they
can parse and process without having to worry about the output format
changing under them.

If your script is _not_ parsing the git command output, but is just
blindly spewing it out to the invoking user, it is Ok to use "show",
though.  Check "-s" option to the "show" command in that case.