Is it just me or is your word wrapper misbehaving? Notice the line that ends with read-cache.c, and the line the comes after it, in the sample output. $ ./git show -s --pretty=gnucl ':/convert object type h' 2007-02-26 Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> * archive-tar.c, archive-zip.c, blob.c, builtin-apply.c, builtin-blame.c, builtin-cat-file.c, builtin-commit-tree.c, builtin-for-each-ref.c, builtin-grep.c, builtin-log.c, builtin-pack-objects.c, builtin-prune.c, builtin-reflog.c, builtin-unpack-objects.c, cache.h, combine-diff.c, commit.c, convert-objects.c, diff.c, entry.c, fast-import.c, http-push.c, index-pack.c, merge-file.c, merge-recursive.c, merge-tree.c, mktag.c, mktree.c, object.c, object.h, pack-check.c, read-cache.c sha1_file.c, tag.c, tree-diff.c, tree.c, unpack-file.c: convert object type handling from a string to a number - 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