From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: [PATCH] Specify a precision for the length of a subject string Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:26:25 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20111220220754.GC21353@llunet.cs.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Nathan W. Panike" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 21 12:26:37 2011 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 1RdKJe-0007Wi-1T for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:26:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751825Ab1LUL03 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:26:29 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:51483 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751646Ab1LUL02 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:26:28 -0500 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B0E180009D; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:26:26 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: 8qhrpPKY1srFavFuWCCYb2Z4JCmsXDuVzVcNjIRPcZA= Received: from igel.home (ppp-93-104-130-25.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.130.25]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 546C21C00155; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:26:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 8E305CA29C; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:26:25 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: UH-OH!! I think KEN is OVER-DUE on his R.V. PAYMENTS and HE'S having a NERVOUS BREAKDOWN too!! Ha ha. In-Reply-To: <20111220220754.GC21353@llunet.cs.wisc.edu> (Nathan W. Panike's message of "Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:07:54 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Nathan W. Panike" writes: > $ git log --pretty='%h %30s' d165204 -1 In C's formatted output this syntax denotes a minimum field width, not a precision, so it will probably be surprising to many people. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."