Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> The updates to the expectation look like this (already squashed).
>> The --source decorations in 4202 are also shown at the end, which
>> probably is in line with the way --show-decorations adds them at the
>> end of the line, but was somewhat surprising from reading only the
>> log message.
>
> Hrm, that does surprise me. I'm not sure if that's desirable or not. I
> do think some of the "nobody could possibly be parsing these" arguments
> about decorations do not apply to --source (and also, they're harder for
> humans to pick out from the end of the line as they lack punctuation and
> color).
I just got bitten by a fallout. I have
$ git recent --help
`git recent' is aliased to `log --oneline --branches --no-merges \
--source --since=3.weeks'
and often do
$ git recent name-hash.c
primarily to see if I already queued a patch series to a topic (and
forgot about it), and/or what other recent topics in flight touch
the same thing.
I'd need that the topic name to be shown rather prominently for this
use case, i.e.
eb2263adb1 jh/memihash-opt name-hash: remember previous dir_...
0c04267dc8 jh/memihash-opt name-hash: specify initial size f...
57463ce445 jh/memihash-opt name-hash: precompute hash values...
dd3170e2cf jh/memihash-opt name-hash: eliminate duplicate me...
but now the branch names are shown at the end, which defeats the
whole point of the alias.
If nobody gets around to fixing it, I may take a look at it when
able, but for now let me just vent^Wreport a regression first.