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Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:20:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Phillip Wood Cc: Mirko Faina , 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: <1759c2fe-6e7a-41b6-9869-97544870ebef@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood's message of "Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:38:05 +0000") References: <225065cc0dd54d1a592939d41783a904a98fb2ad.1773331753.git.mroik@delayed.space> <1759c2fe-6e7a-41b6-9869-97544870ebef@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:20:48 -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 Phillip Wood writes: > It's a pain to have to prefix the format string with "log:" when we > don't require it anywhere else. 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.