On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Enhance the "--pretty=format:" thing so that the current set of
> hardcoded --pretty=medium,short,... formats and your modified
> "medium" can be expressed as a custom format string.
>
> * Introduce a configuration mechanism to allow users to define new
> short-hand, e.g. if you have this in your $HOME/.gitconfig:
>
> [pretty "robin"]
> format = "commit %H%nAuthor: %an <%ae>%n..."
>
Afiak there is already support for this.. from "git help config":
pretty.<name>
Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in git-log(1). Any
aliases defined here can be used just as the built-in pretty formats
could. For example, running git config pretty.changelog "format:* %H
%s" would cause the invocation git log --pretty=changelog to be
equivalent to running git log "--pretty=format:* %H %s". Note that an
alias with the same name as a built-in format will be silently
ignored.
> and run "git log --pretty=robin", it would behave as if you said
> "git log --pretty="format:commit %H%nAuthor: %an <%ae>%n...".
>
So this should already be supported... but to support "robinsformat"
we'd need to be able to "show committer only if different from
author"... Not sure how that would work.
> * (optional) Replace the hardcoded implementations of pretty
> formats with short-hand names like "medium", "short", etc. with a
> built-in set of pretty.$name.format using the configuration
> mechanism. But we need to make sure this does not hurt
> performance for common cases.
>
This part obviously hasn't been done, I don't know if any particular
format is not expressable today by the pretty syntax or not..
But at least configuration does work. I use it as part of displaying the
Fixes: <sha1> ("name")
used by the upstream kernel for marking bug fixes of known commits.
Thus the only real thing would be implementing a % modifier which
allows showing commiter if it's not the same as author. (or vise
versa) Ideally we could take work from the ref-filter library and the
proposed "%if" stuff but I don't tihnk this was actually implemented
yet, and I don't know if that would even work in the pretty modifiers.
Regards,
Jake
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