[PATCH 5/8] Documentation/log: add a CONFIGURATION section
From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:48:46
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Add a configuration section summarizing variables that affect the log family of commands. Cc: Thomas Rast <redacted> Cc: Jakub Narebski <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted> --- Documentation/git-log.txt | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-log.txt b/Documentation/git-log.txt
index fb184ba..d7f6a9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-log.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-log.txt@@ -132,6 +132,48 @@ Discussion include::i18n.txt[] +Configuration +------------- + +See linkgit:git-config[1] for core variables and linkgit:git-diff[1] +for settings related to diff generation. + +format.pretty:: + Default for the `--format` option. (See "PRETTY FORMATS" above.) + Defaults to "medium". + +i18n.logOutputEncoding:: + Encoding to use when displaying logs. (See "Discussion", above.) + Defaults to the value of `i18n.commitEncoding` if set, UTF-8 + otherwise. + +log.date:: + Default format for human-readable dates. (Compare the + `--date` option.) Defaults to "default", which means to write + dates like `Sat May 8 19:35:34 2010 -0500`. + +log.showroot:: + If `false`, 'git log' and related commands will not treat the + initial commit as a big creation event. Any root commits in + `git log -p` output would be shown without a diff attached. + The default is `true`. + +mailmap.file:: + See linkgit:git-shortlog[1]. + +notes.displayRef:: + Which refs, in addition to the default set by `core.notesRef` + or 'GIT_NOTES_REF', to read notes from when showing commit + messages with the 'log' family of commands. See + linkgit:git-notes[1]. ++ +May be an unabbreviated ref name or a glob and may be specified +multiple times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist, +but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored. ++ +This setting can be disabled by the `--no-standard-notes` option, +overridden by the 'GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF' environment variable, +and supplemented by the `--show-notes` option. Author ------
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