Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: >> > The above example made me wonder if we also want a format specifier >> > to do the above without piping, but it turns out that we already >> > have "log --format=%(trailers)", so we are good ;-) >> >> I was going to say, I thought we had a way to get trailers for a >> commit via the pretty format, since that is what i used in the past. > > I do like that you could get the trailers for many commits in a single > invocation. That doesn't matter for my current use-case, but obviously > piping through O(n) interpret-trailers invocations is a bad idea. > But there are a few difficulties with using %(trailers) for this,...
I think it is clear to you, but it may not be clear to others, that I did not mean to say "because 'log --format' already knows about it, this change to interpret-trailers is unnecessary". > For (1) I think many callers would prefer to see the original > formatting. Maybe we'd need a %(trailers:normalize) or something. Thanks; that is exactly the line of thought I had in the back of my head without even realizing when I brought up %(trailers) format element.
