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'
true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
simplification into account.
-* 'format:'
+* 'format:<string>'
+
-The 'format:' format allows you to specify which information
+The 'format:<string>' 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'.
- '%s': subject
- '%f': sanitized subject line, suitable for a filename
- '%b': body
+- '%B': raw body (unwrapped subject and body)
- '%N': commit notes
- '%gD': reflog selector, e.g., `refs/stash@\{1\}`
- '%gd': shortened reflog selector, e.g., `stash@\{1\}`
+- '%gn': reflog identity name
+- '%gN': reflog identity name (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
+- '%ge': reflog identity email
+- '%gE': reflog identity email (respecting .mailmap, see linkgit:git-shortlog[1] or linkgit:git-blame[1])
- '%gs': reflog subject
- '%Cred': switch color to red
- '%Cgreen': switch color to green
immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the
placeholder expands to an empty string.
+If you add a ` ` (space) after '%' of a placeholder, a space
+is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
+placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
+
* 'tformat:'
+
The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it