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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] log --oneline: put decoration at the end of the line
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:18:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v392deed5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120919234226.GA27626@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:42:26 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 04:34:19PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > Yeah, I do not think it is likely.  Among the in-tree scripts,
>> > git-stash does use rev-list --oneline but the purpose of the call
>> > exactly is to grab a human readable one line summary, and it will be
>> > happy with any change to make --oneline more human readble.
>> 
>> Having said that, one of my often used alias is
>> 
>>     [alias] recent = log --branches --oneline --no-merges --decorate --since=3.weeks
>> 
>> to help me see what topics in flight may potentially interact with
>> an incoming patch, when deciding on which commit to base the patch
>> on.  Pushing the decoration at the end to let it fall off the right
>> edge of the screen severely reduces the usefulness of it and defeats
>> the point of using --decorate, at least for this use.
>> 
>> I could use --source instead, though, if it is not moved by the
>> patch.
>
> If you are particular about the exact format, how about using
> --format="%h%d %s" instead?
>
> Obviously Duy could do the same to achieve his format,...

It indeed was the first reaction when I saw the patch under
discussion that came without RFC/ in the subject.

> but I think there
> is still value in considering what the default for --oneline should be.

Yes.  And I was reasonably sure that having the decoration at the
tail is a better default, but no longer.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-20  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-19 11:52 [PATCH] log --oneline: put decoration at the end of the line Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-19 18:20 ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 19:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 20:05     ` Jeff King
2012-09-19 23:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-19 23:42       ` Jeff King
2012-09-20  0:18         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-09-20 10:43         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-20 12:26           ` [PATCH 0/2] New pretty format color specifiers %C+ and %C- Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-20 12:26             ` [PATCH 1/2] pretty: share code between format_decoration and show_decorations Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-20 12:26             ` [PATCH 2/2] pretty: support placeholders %C+ and %C- Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2012-09-20 14:38               ` [PATCH 3/2] pretty: support right alignment Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-20 16:40                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21  8:55                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-21 17:46                     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-23  8:17                     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-25  0:27                       ` Jeff King
2012-09-21 13:03                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-20 16:47               ` [PATCH 2/2] pretty: support placeholders %C+ and %C- Junio C Hamano
2012-09-20 17:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-21  8:36                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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