Re: [BUG] --pretty=format does not work ok with rev-list

Jörg Sommer [off-list ref] writes:

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k@k0001 ~/linux-2.6 $ git rev-list -2 --pretty=format:"%H: %cn" master
commit f4be31ec9690cfe6e94fcbed6ae60a6a38b3c3ed
f4be31ec9690cfe6e94fcbed6ae60a6a38b3c3ed: Linus Torvalds
commit 44cad261025c04327fd7e847a7088fd3031b0c3e
44cad261025c04327fd7e847a7088fd3031b0c3e: Linus Torvalds

Is this a bug? I've the same “problem” in my rebase with merge patch
series and added a “|grep -v ^commit”. But if this is a bug, I can remove
it.

I personally do not think the above is a particularly desirable output,
but that's how rev-list worked for a long time and existing scripts
probably expect it that way.

rev-list is for script consumption, and giving --pretty=format that has %H
in it would be asking for redundant information.