Re: [PATCH 0/3] pretty: format aliases

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:09:55PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Jeff King wrote:

quoted

The config variables format.* are traditionally about format-patch. I
see we have format.pretty these days, too.

Yes, it as added in commit v1.5.5-rc0~57^2 (log/show/whatchanged:
introduce format.pretty configuration, 2008-03-02):

    When running log/show/whatchanged from the command line, the user may want
    to use a preferred format without having to pass --pretty=<fmt> option
    every time from the command line.  This teaches these three commands to
    honor a new configuration variable, format.pretty.

    The --pretty option given from the command line will override the 
    configured format.

I use it to mess with line wrapping; that it’s possible is very nice.
Thanks, Renquan.

To be clear, I don't have any problem with the _functionality_. I just
think it probably should have been log.pretty, or pretty.default or
something. Too late now, though.

-Peff