On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 01:18:40PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I think the problem is specifically related to the "terminator" versus > > "separator" semantics. Try: > > > > git log --graph --name-status --pretty=format:%h > > > > versus: > > > > git log --graph --name-status --pretty=tformat:%h > > > > The latter works fine. The problem seems to happen with all diff > > formats, so I think the issue is that git is not aggressive enough about > > inserting the newline at the right spot when using separator mode. > > I guess that is one of the reasons why we made --format=%h a synonym > to --pretty=tformat:%h and not --pretty=format:%h ;-) Yeah. I have never found "--pretty=format" to do what I want versus tformat. I wish we could just get rid of it, but I think it is likely to be used as a plumbing interface. So I think there probably _is_ a bug in it to be fixed, but my immediate response is "don't ever use --pretty=format:". -Peff