On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> It is one thing that the user can actually do the check themselves, >> but doesn't it make more sense that when we're using colon we expect a >> value after it, and something like %(color:) makes no sense when color >> specifically needs a value after the colon. > > If you imagine the format being built by scripts (we are talking > about plumbing feature --format here), I think you will realize that > it perfectly makes sense to allow them to say "%(atom:$modifiation)" > without having to worry about a special case where $modification > happened to end up being empty. So no, I do not agree with your > statement at all. Ah! that makes sense, thanks :) -- Regards, Karthik Nayak -- 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