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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-10-04 23:43:32 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-10-04 23:43:32 -0700 |
commit | 9fa708dab1ccf8be69a606ca4eb58e62f3ef334a (patch) | |
tree | f7161d095174d809d3839dab1ac4d78f433f792c /Documentation | |
parent | a7aebb9d00332364411e85c703cc25dc0580f2d4 (diff) | |
download | git-9fa708dab1ccf8be69a606ca4eb58e62f3ef334a.tar.gz |
Pretty-format: %[+-]x to tweak inter-item newlines
This teaches the "pretty" machinery to expand '%+x' to a LF followed by
the expansion of '%x' if and only if '%x' expands to a non-empty string,
and to remove LFs before '%-x' if '%x' expands to an empty string. This
works for any supported expansion placeholder 'x'.
This is expected to be immediately useful to reproduce the commit log
message with "%s%+b%n"; "%s%n%b%n" adds one extra LF if the log message is
a one-liner.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 2a845b1e57..ca9c6d1f80 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ The placeholders are: - '%n': newline - '%x00': print a byte from a hex code +If you add a `{plus}` (plus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, a line-feed +is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the +placeholder expands to a non-empty string. + +If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, line-feeds that +immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the +placeholder expands to an empty string. + * 'tformat:' + The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it |