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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Jörg Sommer" <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] --pretty=format does not work ok with rev-list
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:24:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbq3xpzba.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrng1386p.ujv.joerg@alea.gnuu.de> (Jörg Sommer's message of "Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:14:01 +0000 (UTC)")

Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> writes:

>> k@k0001 ~/linux-2.6 $ git rev-list -2 --pretty=format:"%H: %cn" master
>> commit f4be31ec9690cfe6e94fcbed6ae60a6a38b3c3ed
>> f4be31ec9690cfe6e94fcbed6ae60a6a38b3c3ed: Linus Torvalds
>> commit 44cad261025c04327fd7e847a7088fd3031b0c3e
>> 44cad261025c04327fd7e847a7088fd3031b0c3e: Linus Torvalds
>
> Is this a bug? I've the same “problem” in my rebase with merge patch
> series and added a “|grep -v ^commit”. But if this is a bug, I can remove
> it.

I personally do not think the above is a particularly desirable output,
but that's how rev-list worked for a long time and existing scripts
probably expect it that way.

rev-list is for script consumption, and giving --pretty=format that has %H
in it would be asking for redundant information.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-25 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-12 20:40 [BUG] --pretty=format does not work ok with rev-list k0001
2008-04-25  9:14 ` Jörg Sommer
2008-04-25 18:24   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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