---pretty[='<format>']::
-
- Pretty-prints the details of a commit. `--pretty`
- without an explicit `=<format>` defaults to 'medium'.
- If the commit is a merge, and if the pretty-format
- is not 'oneline', 'email' or 'raw', an additional line is
- inserted before the 'Author:' line. This line begins with
- "Merge: " and the sha1s of ancestral commits are printed,
- separated by spaces. Note that the listed commits may not
- necessarily be the list of the *direct* parent commits if you
- have limited your view of history: for example, if you are
- only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
- file. Here are some additional details for each format:
-
- * 'oneline'
+PRETTY FORMATS
+--------------
+
+If the commit is a merge, and if the pretty-format
+is not 'oneline', 'email' or 'raw', an additional line is
+inserted before the 'Author:' line. This line begins with
+"Merge: " and the sha1s of ancestral commits are printed,
+separated by spaces. Note that the listed commits may not
+necessarily be the list of the *direct* parent commits if you
+have limited your view of history: for example, if you are
+only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
+file.
+
+Here are some additional details for each format:
+
+* 'oneline'
<sha1> <title line>
+
This is designed to be as compact as possible.
- * 'short'
+* 'short'
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
<title line>
- * 'medium'
+* 'medium'
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
<full commit message>
- * 'full'
+* 'full'
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
<full commit message>
- * 'fuller'
+* 'fuller'
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
<full commit message>
-
- * 'email'
+* 'email'
From <sha1> <date>
From: <author>
Date: <date & time>
Subject: [PATCH] <title line>
- full commit message>
-
+ <full commit message>
- * 'raw'
+* 'raw'
+
The 'raw' format shows the entire commit exactly as
stored in the commit object. Notably, the SHA1s are
true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
simplification into account.
---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.
+* '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<<%n"'
+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
+- '%m': left, right or boundary mark
+- '%n': newline
+