"Ravi (Tom) Hale" <ravi@xxxxxxx> writes: > The log --format="%d" includes preceding space: > > $ git log -n1 --format="XX%dXX" HEAD > XX (HEAD -> master)XX > > I know of no other %<token> that is output in this way. That is primarily because %d predates %[-+ ]<placeholder> mechanism, I think. It is too late to redefine what "%d" means and force all users to update their script to use "% d" instead, unfortunately.