SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> That depends on what you use it for. I most often use mine to
>> insert the reference that flows in a sentence, not as a separate
>> displayed material, e.g.
>>
>> 1f6b1afe ("Git 2.12.1", 2017-03-20)
>>
>> so for that purpose, not adding a trailing newline is a feature.
>
> Perhaps we are running it differently.
>
> I use its output that way, too, usually running the command in a
> terminal and copy-pasting its output into an editor.
I do \C-u\M-!git one<ENTER> from Emacs in the middle of typing a
sentence (where "git one" is aliased to that --format thing), and
for this I obviously do not want the terminating newline.
Of course --pretty=format:... has the opposite effect and in a
terminal to make it easier to cut&paste you do want to have its
output separated from the prompt string.
So as I said, "That depends on what you use it for."
As this is a mere example, we should just shoot for brevity instead?
Both "--pretty=format:" and "--pretty=tformat:" are much longer than
"--format=", so we can just mention
git show --date=short -s --format='%h ("%s", %ad)'
and let the users to customize it for their needs?