On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:55:53AM +0000, Kannan Goundan wrote: > For our workflow, author dates aren't very useful. I'm looking for a way to > configure Git so that "git log" shows commit dates instead of author dates. > "--pretty=fuller" gets me almost what I want, but I'd like to avoid the > extra two lines if possible. > > I tried achieving this by putting a custom format string in ~/.gitconfig: > > [format] > pretty = "%C(auto,yellow)commit %C(auto)%H\nAuthor: %an <%ae>\nDate: > %cd\n\n%w(0,4,4)%B" > > This works pretty well, but has a few corner cases. When you do "git log > --decorate", the default format decorates commits with ref names. I can add > "%d" to my format string, but then the ref names show up all the time, even > without "--decorate". > > The "--walk-reflogs" option presents a similar problem. The %g* > placeholders all become empty strings when "--walk-reflogs" isn't present, > which is sort of what I want, but it leaves extra blank lines in the output. > > Is it possible to exactly replicate the default "git log" format with a > format string? Sadly, no, I don't think it is possible with the current format specifiers. It would be nice if it was, though. -Peff -- 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