Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / Documentation / pretty-formats.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
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--- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
@@ -1,31 +1,32 @@
---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>
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ This is designed to be as compact as possible.
 
              <full commit message>
 
-        * 'full'
+* 'full'
 
          commit <sha1>
          Author: <author>
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ This is designed to be as compact as possible.
 
              <full commit message>
 
-        * 'fuller'
+* 'fuller'
 
          commit <sha1>
          Author: <author>
@@ -57,18 +58,16 @@ This is designed to be as compact as possible.
 
               <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
@@ -77,9 +76,49 @@ displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
 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
+