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authorWill Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>2010-05-02 12:00:44 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-05-03 09:40:32 -0700
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pretty: add aliases for pretty formats
previously the only ways to alias a --pretty format within git were either to set the format as your default format (via the format.pretty configuration variable), or by using a regular git alias. This left the definition of more complicated formats to the realm of "builtin or nothing", with user-defined formats usually being reserved for quick one-offs. Here we allow user-defined formats to enjoy more or less the same benefits of builtins. By defining pretty.myalias, "myalias" can be used in place of whatever would normally come after --pretty=. This can be a format:, tformat:, raw (ie, defaulting to tformat), or the name of another builtin or user-defined pretty format. Signed-off-by: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ have limited your view of history: for example, if you are
only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
file.
-Here are some additional details for each format:
+There are several built-in formats, and you can define
+additional formats by setting a pretty.<name>
+config option to either another format name, or a
+'format:' string, as described below (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]). Here are the details of the
+built-in formats:
* 'oneline'