Considering add log.format and show.format configure option

Considering add log.format and show.format configure option

[Zang]

Hi forks,

People including me are asking feature to use different format for log and show:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20579889/different-pretty-formats-for-git-log-and-git-show
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37898232/make-different-pretty-settings-for-git-log-and-git-show

Can we consider add such option to git-config

[format]
    mylogformat = <...>
    myshowformat = <...>
[log]
    format = mylogformat
[show]
    format = myshowformat

Which should work same as

git log --format=mylogformat
git show --format=myshowformat

Re: Considering add log.format and show.format configure option

[Jeff King]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 03:12:34PM +0800, Zang wrote:

> Can we consider add such option to git-config
> 
> [format]
>     mylogformat = <...>
>     myshowformat = <...>
> [log]
>     format = mylogformat
> [show]
>     format = myshowformat
> 
> Which should work same as
> 
> git log --format=mylogformat
> git show --format=myshowformat

I don't think there is any reason not to add something like that. As you
note, we already allow overriding the default for all of the log-family
commands. So doing it for individual ones is not a stretch.

(I'm not sure if you know, the first half of your suggestion is already
available as pretty.*, so this would just be adding log.format, etc, to
override format.pretty. Possibly your "format' is just a typo of
"pretty" there).

-Peff

Re: Considering add log.format and show.format configure option

[Junio C Hamano]

Zang <zealot0630@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi forks,
>
> People including me are asking feature to use different format for log and show:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/q...

We do not pay attention to SO, and it is good you came here.

> [log]
>     format = mylogformat
> [show]
>     format = myshowformat

I think something along this line was raised as a possible
enhancement on the list earlier.  If we were to do so, we should not
limit the enhancement only to "log/show" but to all the commands in
the "log" family, and similarly, not only to "format", but to many
common options.

Patches welcome.

Thanks.