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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit•edu>, Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] doc/pretty-formats: describe index/time formats for %gd
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:01:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtwfv7gxd.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160712000841.GB26163@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:08:42 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> Maybe this on top of the other documentation patches?
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] doc/pretty-formats: explain shortening of %gd
>
> The actual shortening rules aren't that interesting and
> probably not worth getting into (I gloss over them here as
> "shortened for human readability"). But the fact that %gD
> shows whatever you gave on the command line is subtle and
> worth mentioning. Since most people will feed a shortened
> refname in the first place, it otherwise makes it hard to
> understand the difference between the two.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
> ---
>  Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> index 36a300a..b95d67e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
> @@ -149,9 +149,12 @@ endif::git-rev-list[]
>  - '%GK': show the key used to sign a signed commit
>  - '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@{1}` or
>    `refs/stash@{2 minutes ago`}; the format follows the rules described
> -  for the `-g` option
> -- '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@{1}` or
> -  `stash@{2 minutes ago}`
> +  for the `-g` option. The portion before the `@` is the refname as
> +  given on the command line (so `git log -g refs/heads/master` would
> +  yield `refs/heads/master@{0}`).
> +- '%gd': shortened reflog selector; same as `%gD`, but the refname
> +  portion is shortened for human readability (so `refs/heads/master`
> +  becomes just `master`).

Sounds about the right amount of detail to me.  Thanks.

>  - '%gn': reflog identity name
>  - '%gN': reflog identity name (respecting .mailmap, see
>    linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-12  2:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-10  5:54 [PATCH] pretty: add format specifiers: %gr, %gt, %gI, gi Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-10  6:16 ` Jeff King
2016-07-10 14:26   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-10 16:05     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-07-10 23:28       ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11  5:02     ` Jeff King
2016-07-11  5:03       ` [PATCH 1/5] doc/rev-list-options: clarify "commit@{Nth}" for "-g" option Jeff King
2016-07-11  5:04       ` [PATCH 2/5] doc/rev-list-options: explain "-g" output formats Jeff King
2016-07-11  5:05       ` [PATCH 3/5] doc/pretty-formats: describe index/time formats for %gd Jeff King
2016-07-11 16:48         ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-12  0:08           ` Jeff King
2016-07-12  2:01             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-07-11  5:06       ` [PATCH 4/5] date: document and test "raw-local" mode Jeff King
2016-07-11 16:50         ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-12  0:16           ` Jeff King
2016-07-11  5:07       ` [PATCH 5/5] date: add "unix" format Jeff King
2016-07-11 16:43       ` [PATCH] pretty: add format specifiers: %gr, %gt, %gI, gi Theodore Ts'o
2016-07-11 19:07         ` Junio C Hamano

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