Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
- 'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'. See
- the "PRETTY FORMATS" section for some additional details for each
- format. When omitted, the format defaults to 'medium'.
+ 'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw', 'format:<string>'
+ and 'tformat:<string>'. When '<format>' is none of the above,
+ and has '%placeholder' in it, it acts as if
+ '--pretty=tformat:<format>' were given.
++
+See the "PRETTY FORMATS" section for some additional details for each
+format. When '=<format>' part is omitted, it defaults to 'medium'.
+
Note: you can specify the default pretty format in the repository
configuration (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
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.
+ defaults to UTF-8. Note that if an object claims to be encoded
+ in `X` and we are outputting in `X`, we will output the object
+ verbatim; this means that invalid sequences in the original
+ commit may be copied to the output.
--notes[=<ref>]::
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