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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> > The supported placeholders are:
>> >
>> > 	'%H': commit hash
>> >...
>> > 	'%b': body
>> 
>> Hmmm.  Would we want to make them somehow interoperable with
>> git-for-each-ref format atoms?
>
> But those placeholders are so long! Not even GNU date supports such long 
> placeholders... And I could not reuse interpolate.[ch] as is for that.

What I was hinting at was to fix (or extend) for-each-ref to
accept these short-and-sweet placeholders.

>> Also, it _might_ be worthwhile to do something like "%+4b" which means 
>> "indent each line of this field with 4 spaces", for a multi-line field 
>> like "%b".
>
> Same goes here: interpolate.[ch] does not (yet) allow for that.

Nah, if you feel it is too much work, I trust your judgement (I
do not recall details of how interpolate.c does its thing).  I
do not think it's worth it.