From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>,
Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] gitk: drop quotes in copysummary format
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:12:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfthom9p7.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75dc131f0575cbe5d885af8897cbde054f7c07cf.1576197846.git.liu.denton@gmail.com> (Denton Liu's message of "Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:44:49 -0800")
Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
> In an earlier commit[1], git learned the 'reference' pretty format. This
> format was very similar to the format that copysummary used but it omits
> the quotes surrounding the commit's subject. Remove the quotes from the
> format in copysummary in order to match the 'reference' pretty format.
>
> It seems the consensus is that the unquoted form is used more often
> anyway[2] so this change should be acceptable.
>
> [These commits are in git.git.]
> [1]: 1f0fc1db85 (pretty: implement 'reference' format, 2019-11-19)
> [2]: fb2ffa77a6 (SubmittingPatches: remove dq from commit reference, 2019-11-19)
This change to gitk actually can easily be controversial.
The "used more often" census IIUC was done on _this_ project, and
SubmittingPatches is merely a guideline to contribute to _this_
project, but the audience of gitk that wants to use the copysummary
format is a lot wider than that.
This patch alone may not be worth sinking the time on for that
reason.
Having said that, if we teach --pretty=reference to optionally use a
custom format via a configuration variable, it would make quite a
lot of sense to do an update _like_ this patch does to gitk. It
would probably allow the code to read from the same configuration
variable, instead of replacing a hardcoded format string with
another hardcoded format string, though.
Thanks.
> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
> ---
> gitk | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gitk b/gitk
> index abe4805ade..d07e3302de 100755
> --- a/gitk
> +++ b/gitk
> @@ -9429,7 +9429,7 @@ proc mktaggo {} {
> proc copysummary {} {
> global rowmenuid autosellen
>
> - set format "%h (\"%s\", %ad)"
> + set format "%h (%s, %ad)"
> set cmd [list git show -s --pretty=format:$format --date=short]
> if {$autosellen < 40} {
> lappend cmd --abbrev=$autosellen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-13 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-11 21:39 [PATCH] gitk: use --pretty=reference for copysummary Denton Liu
2019-12-11 21:58 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-12-11 22:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-13 0:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] gitk: match Git's 'reference' pretty format Denton Liu
2019-12-13 0:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] gitk: drop quotes in copysummary format Denton Liu
2019-12-13 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-12-15 4:19 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-12-13 0:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] gitk: rename "commit summary" to "commit reference" Denton Liu
2019-12-13 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-15 4:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2019-12-13 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] gitk: match Git's 'reference' pretty format Junio C Hamano
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