On 07.09.20 08:54, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Finally, a non-built-in name to express the format specific to a
> project can already be defined and used pretty easily; e.g. the
> "pretty.kernel" format may say %h ("%s") and can be used like
>
> $ git show -s --pretty=kernel HEAD
>
> with the same ease as the 'reference' format.
>
> $ git show -s --pretty=reference HEAD
This would work fine if there wasn't also gitk, which has a "Copy commit
reference" function. Without a common name for the format in Git and
gitk, we lose the single point of truth.
The one alternative I can see is to make the format name configurable in
gitk.
