Re: git log --encoding=HTML is not supported

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I wouldn't be opposed to an option for the pretty formatter to have
encodings. Something like:

  git log --format='%(authorname:quote=html)'

I'd probably put off implementing that until we actually unify the
for-each-ref and pretty formats, though (we do not even have
%(authorname) at this point!). The latter already has a quoting
mechanism for shell/perl/python/tcl (though it is not per-atom, and I
wouldn't be opposed to a --format-quote option that quoted all pretty.c
placeholders).

Yeah, per-atom would be nice, as we can specify which piece needs
what kind of quoting, e.g.

    git log --format='
	if test %(authoremail:quote=shell) != "gitster@pobox.com"
	then
	    echo %(authorname:quote=html+shell)
	fi
    ' | sh

can be used to write a script to produce an "echo" command with a
shell literal string as its argument, where that literal string
writes author's name in a way that can be inserted in an HTML
document, but omitting the commits by me.