---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>
- Date: <date>
+ Date: <author date>
<title line>
<full commit message>
- * 'full'
+* 'full'
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
<full commit message>
- * 'fuller'
+* 'fuller'
commit <sha1>
Author: <author>
- AuthorDate: <date & time>
+ AuthorDate: <author date>
Commit: <committer>
- CommitDate: <date & time>
+ CommitDate: <committer date>
<title line>
<full commit message>
-
- * 'email'
+* 'email'
From <sha1> <date>
From: <author>
- Date: <date & time>
+ Date: <author date>
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.
- * 'format:'
+* '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<<"'
++
+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
- '%P': parent hashes
- '%p': abbreviated parent hashes
- '%an': author name
+- '%aN': author name (respecting .mailmap)
- '%ae': author email
-- '%ad': author date
+- '%ad': author date (format respects --date= option)
- '%aD': author date, RFC2822 style
- '%ar': author date, relative
- '%at': author date, UNIX timestamp
+- '%ai': author date, ISO 8601 format
- '%cn': committer name
+- '%cN': committer name (respecting .mailmap)
- '%ce': committer email
- '%cd': committer date
- '%cD': committer date, RFC2822 style
- '%cr': committer date, relative
- '%ct': committer date, UNIX timestamp
+- '%ci': committer date, ISO 8601 format
+- '%d': ref names, like the --decorate option of linkgit:git-log[1]
- '%e': encoding
- '%s': subject
- '%b': body
- '%Creset': reset color
- '%m': left, right or boundary mark
- '%n': newline
+- '%x00': print a byte from a hex code
-
---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.
-
+* 'tformat:'
++
+The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it
+provides "terminator" semantics instead of "separator" semantics. In
+other words, each commit has the message terminator character (usually a
+newline) appended, rather than a separator placed between entries.
+This means that the final entry of a single-line format will be properly
+terminated with a new line, just as the "oneline" format does.
+For example:
++
+---------------------
+$ git log -2 --pretty=format:%h 4da45bef \
+ | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
+4da45be
+7134973 -- NO NEWLINE
+
+$ git log -2 --pretty=tformat:%h 4da45bef \
+ | perl -pe '$_ .= " -- NO NEWLINE\n" unless /\n/'
+4da45be
+7134973
+---------------------