Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.5.0.2-273-g8ab3
diff --git a/pretty-formats.txt b/pretty-formats.txt index fb0b0b9..2fe6c31 100644 --- a/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -77,9 +77,53 @@ true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history simplification into account. + * 'format:' ++ +The 'format:' format allows you to specify which information +you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format, +with the notable exception that you get a newline with '%n' +instead of '\n'. + +E.g, 'format:"The author of %h was %an, %ar%nThe title was >>%s<<"' +would show something like this: + +The author of fe6e0ee was Junio C Hamano, 23 hours ago +The title was >>t4119: test autocomputing -p<n> for traditional diff input.<< + +The placeholders are: + +- '%H': commit hash +- '%h': abbreviated commit hash +- '%T': tree hash +- '%t': abbreviated tree hash +- '%P': parent hashes +- '%p': abbreviated parent hashes +- '%an': author name +- '%ae': author email +- '%ad': author date +- '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style +- '%ar': author date, relative +- '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp +- '%cn': committer name +- '%ce': committer email +- '%cd': committer date +- '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style +- '%cr': committer date, relative +- '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp +- '%e': encoding +- '%s': subject +- '%b': body +- '%Cred': switch color to red +- '%Cgreen': switch color to green +- '%Cblue': switch color to blue +- '%Creset': reset color +- '%n': newline + + --encoding[=<encoding>]:: The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this defaults to UTF-8. +
