Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> Maybe this on top of the other documentation patches?
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] doc/pretty-formats: explain shortening of %gd
>
> The actual shortening rules aren't that interesting and
> probably not worth getting into (I gloss over them here as
> "shortened for human readability"). But the fact that %gD
> shows whatever you gave on the command line is subtle and
> worth mentioning. Since most people will feed a shortened
> refname in the first place, it otherwise makes it hard to
> understand the difference between the two.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> index 36a300a..b95d67e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> @@ -149,9 +149,12 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
> - '%GK': show the key used to sign a signed commit
> - '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}` or
> `refs/stash@{2 minutes ago`}; the format follows the rules described
> - for the `-g` option
> -- '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@{1}` or
> - `stash@{2 minutes ago}`
> + for the `-g` option. The portion before the `@` is the refname as
> + given on the command line (so `git log -g refs/heads/master` would
> + yield `refs/heads/master@{0}`).
> +- '%gd': shortened reflog selector; same as `%gD`, but the refname
> + portion is shortened for human readability (so `refs/heads/master`
> + becomes just `master`).
Sounds about the right amount of detail to me. Thanks.
> - '%gn': reflog identity name
> - '%gN': reflog identity name (respecting .mailmap, see
> linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
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