Re: VC top of the tree diff and log

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
  > > A related question: should we have an option (or default?) to show the
  > > short version (--pretty=oneline --graph) ?
  > 
  > Would be useful, though I dunno what you'd bind it too... at some point
  > having too many bindings for essentially-similar-commands becomes kind
  > of annoying/confusing.

I am thinking that we could have 2 modes for the log: 
- a short one that would be used by default for directory logs
- the current long one that would be used for file logs
(I haven't completely thought this through)...

  > I don't really like the default --pretty=oneline format though, as it
  > wastes too much space on the hash, and doesn't show a date (which I find
  > very useful in looking at logs).
  > 
  > Here's what I use (with my own "slog" alias):
  > 
  >    --date=short --pretty=format:"%h  %ad  %s" --abbrev-commit

Looks better indeed. As long as the version that it prints can be used
to show the corresponding diff, we should be good.

  > [note there are _two_ spaces between fields, which makes the result much
  > more readable than one, I think]

I want the graph too