Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Thomas Rast wrote:
>
>> Granted, it makes it equivalent to --pretty=tformat:foo, but isn't
>> tformat the better choice in many cases?
>
> Not really. Look at what happens with
>
> git log --stat --pretty=format:%s
>
> and then try tformat instead. 'tformat' is broken, as is our current
> --format=%s.
>
> In other words, all of that crud is totally illogical, and our "short
> versions" (--oneline and --format=) were done entirely incorrectly (well,
> --oneline probably has the _right_ semantics, and --pretty=oneline is just
> wrong, but whatever).
If you try that without --stat, i.e.
$ git log -4 --pretty=format:%s | cat -e
$ git log -4 --pretty=tformat:%s | cat -e
I suspect you may then find that --pretty=format (not --pretty=tformat) is
broken.
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