Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... >> Well, my hope was to replace --pretty=short with --format=short, but >> you said that would break other scripts. > > It is not just scripts you break. You also break people's trained > fingers. > ... > The only reason why new --format=<fmt> could be an useful addition is > because --pretty=format:<fmt> may be too long to type interactively. An obvious alternative with lessor impact than your patch would be not to introduce an additional option --format, but just make ":" as a synonym to "tformat:". Then you can say "--pretty=:%h %s". You would need to type one colon more but that might conceptually be less confusing, when somebody is starting to learn git *after* this change, without knowing that we did not have --format in earlier versions, from the documentation and existing pages on various web sites. -- 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
