[PATCH v2 4/6] doc/pretty-formats: explain shortening of %gd
From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-22 19:51:57
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- 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`). - '%gn': reflog identity name - '%gN': reflog identity name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
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