On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 08:03:50PM +0200, Gustaf Hendeby wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> thanks for the detailed answer.
>
> On 05/28/2011 07:26 PM, Carlos MartÃn Nieto wrote:
> > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:53:28PM +0200, Gustaf Hendeby wrote:
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> I was playing around with "git show" lately and realized it has changed
> >> its behavior regarding the --quiet option, which no longer suppresses
> >> the diff output as it used to. The behavior change happened in
> >> 1c40c36b ("log: convert to parse-options"). Was this intentional?
> > How are you using the --quiet option and why would you even need it?
>
> I used
>
> git show --quiet --pretty="format:%ci" HEAD
>
> to extract the commit date of HEAD, and I simply replaced it with
>
> git log -1 --quiet --pretty="format:%ci" HEAD
>
> Though, the email from Junio suggests I should use (and this works)
>
> git show -a --pretty="format:%ci" HEAD
>
I'm assuming you meant -s instead of -a
> still, I wonder if there is no better/more efficient solution to this.
>
There is --format, so that line would look like
git show -s --format="%ci" HEAD
which IMO is quite compact and self-explanatory. Depending on how much
control you have over the environment, you could set up an alias like
git config alias.show-commit 'show -s'
or even
git config alias.show-commit-date 'show -s --format="%ci"'
cmn
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