Re: Bug report - git show <tagname> together with --pretty=format

Cornelius venit, vidit, dixit 08.04.2009 14:56:

Hi,
I've a problem with git 1.6.2.2 (self compiled) and git show. I use it's 
output for parsing the git data, so this is more than a minor issue for 
me. When you normally do a git show on a tag name it's output resembles 
the following:
tag <tagname>
Tagger: Cornelius [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Apr 8 14:39:17 2009 +0200


tagmessage
commit 77e312e0527f87604e4c70ebf6040e79bb55d2ed
<snip>

Now when you do a git show <tagname> 
--pretty=format:"ENDOFGITTAGOUTPUTMESAGEHERE%n%H" --
the Date: line is missing. Git 1.6.0.5 (which is avaible in my distro's 
repos) doesn't have this issue. Please CC me, I'm not subcribed here.
Cornelius

It's not a bug, it's a feature ;)

In fact, git show used to ignore format specifiers for the tag part and
apply them to the commit part only. Since
ea718e6 (show <tag>: reuse pp_user_info() instead of duplicating code,
2009-01-02)
(which is in v1.6.2) it applies the format to both, which is why there
is no tag date unless you ask for it (or use the default format).

Michael