Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --pretty=fuller

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:11:25 +0100

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> git log without --pretty showed author and author-date, while
> with --pretty=full showed author and committer but no dates.
> The new formatting option, --pretty=fuller, shows both name and
> timestamp for author and committer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
> 
> ---
> 
>  * again, likes, dislikes, don't-cares?
> 

Why not use:

--show=cdm,atn

for
Committer: date, mail
Author: timestamp,name

or

--show-author=date,timestamp,name
--show-committer=name,time
--show=name,date (for both author and committer)

or some such, with --pretty=<something> just a short-hand for those 
show-options?

We'll run out of superlatives really quickly if there are more author 
and committer info added sometime in the future, while the --show 
flag(s) can be extended more or less indefinitely.

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