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Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:22:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Mirko Faina Cc: Phillip Wood , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King , Bert Wesarg Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] format-patch: add ability to use alt cover format In-Reply-To: (Mirko Faina's message of "Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:17:01 +0100") References: <225065cc0dd54d1a592939d41783a904a98fb2ad.1773331753.git.mroik@delayed.space> <1759c2fe-6e7a-41b6-9869-97544870ebef@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:22:50 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mirko Faina writes: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 10:20:48AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I do not mind a sort of DWIM similar to "log --pretty=format:%s"; >> technically, "git log --prefix" requires the "format:" prefix when >> using a custom format (i.e., not the canned "short", "fuller", etc.) >> but we DWIM when the string appears to use %-interpolation. > > Then we can move towards keeping the "log:" prefix but > allowing for it to be dropped when %-interpolation occurs, just like > --pretty does. Yes. I vewi the DWIM as icing on the case, though. IOW, the feature is perfectly fine to require "log:" and still move forward, and it would be nice if people can say "--pretty=%s" without it. But that DWIM is "it would be nice if this is added".