Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Oops, I read about `--pretty` in pretty-formats.txt and didn't realize > that `--format` existed. However, your patch is still wrong because > there seems to be a subtle (and confusing) difference between > `--pretty` and `--format`. In the latter, you can't omit the format, > and expect it to be picked up from format.pretty: > > $ git log --format > fatal: unrecognized argument: --format You can do $ git log and format.pretty will still take effect. In other words, setting format.pretty to "foo" is somewhat like making $ git log do $ git log --format=foo which is what the text is supposed to explain. It is based on the following text from Documentation/config.txt: format.pretty:: The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command, See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], linkgit:git-whatchanged[1]. I do imagine it can be made clearer. s/--format/--pretty/ does not go far enough --- it only replaces one confusing explanation with another. Hoping that clarifies, Jonathan -- 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