On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:09:55PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > > > The config variables format.* are traditionally about format-patch. I > > see we have format.pretty these days, too. > > Yes, it as added in commit v1.5.5-rc0~57^2 (log/show/whatchanged: > introduce format.pretty configuration, 2008-03-02): > > When running log/show/whatchanged from the command line, the user may want > to use a preferred format without having to pass --pretty=<fmt> option > every time from the command line. This teaches these three commands to > honor a new configuration variable, format.pretty. > > The --pretty option given from the command line will override the > configured format. > > I use it to mess with line wrapping; that it’s possible is very nice. > Thanks, Renquan. To be clear, I don't have any problem with the _functionality_. I just think it probably should have been log.pretty, or pretty.default or something. Too late now, though. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html