Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] doc/SubmittingPatches: show how to get a CLI commit summary

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:07:42 -0700

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <[email-masked]> writes:

>  The "Copy commit summary" command of gitk can be used to obtain this
> -format.
> +format, or this invocation of "git show":
>  
> +    git show -s --date=format:%Y-%m-%d --pretty='commit %h ("%s", %ad)' <commit>

I've seen (I think I stole it from Peff) this one recommended often
on the list, which is shorter:

    $ git show --date=short -s --pretty='format:%h ("%s", %ad)' <commit>