Jeff King wrote (2008-08-20 14:00 -0400): > There is a lot of room for discussion here. > > For example: > > - what should %d show? Right now it shows each decoration, split by > commas. It doesn't show the enclosing parentheses automatically. > > Is this too strict? Should there be some way of pulling out > individual decorations from the list, or specifying a different > delimiter? If so, probably that should be part of a general > improvement in the format expansion macro language. If such "general improvement" takes place I'd like to point out (most likely old news, but anyway) that %b can't be indented in practical sense. For example, the command git log --pretty=format:%x09%s%n%n%x09%b -1 3a634dc prints this: Add hints to revert documentation about other ways to undo changes Based on its name, people may read the 'git revert' documentation when they want to undo local changes, especially people who have used other SCM's. 'git revert' may not be what they had in mind, but git provides several other ways to undo changes to files. We can help them by pointing them towards the git commands that do what they might want to do. [...] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html