Re: Format for %d includes unwanted preceding space

"Ravi (Tom) Hale" [off-list ref] writes:

The log --format="%d" includes preceding space:

$ git log -n1 --format="XX%dXX" HEAD
XX (HEAD -> master)XX

I know of no other %<token> that is output in this way.

That is primarily because %d predates %[-+ ]<placeholder> mechanism,
I think.  It is too late to redefine what "%d" means and force all
users to update their script to use "% d" instead, unfortunately.