Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

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Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Jakub Narebski escreveu:
> 
>>>   - --pretty option with wholly uninformative options full, medium, 
>>> short, raw.  It's not even documented what each option does.
>> 
>> And 'oneline' and undocumented 'email'. True, git lacks documentation (and
>> this one of main complaints in git survey).
> 
> The recently posted patch documenting is an improvement, but why not
> add an option so you can do
> 
>   --format 'committer %c\nauthor %a\n'
>   
> this catches all combinations, and is easier for scripting.
> 
> Right now, I have some scripts that have to munge log output with
> regular expressions to strip out the "author:"  prefixes.

If we ever implemented this, I'd rather to separate what is now of format
parsing in git-for-each-ref (although I'd like to make it more like rpm's
--query-format argument, with %-n{header}, %[array] etc.) into separate
module, and reuse it for git-log and friends --pretty/--format handling.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


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