Re: vc-git short log format

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> vc-git sets log-view-message-re, for short logs, to
>
>    "^\\(?:[*/\\| ]+ \\)?\\(?: ([^)]+)\\)?\\([0-9a-z]+\\)
>
> Anyone know what the initial [*/\\| ] grouping is for?  I've only ever
> seen git provide * at the start of each short log entry.  I've not seen
> it print any of [/\\| ], or omit the asterisk entirely; when does that
> happen?
>
> (Asking because I'm working on toggling between short and long vc-log
> entries, and it would be awfully convenient if I could just distinguish
> expanded entries by indenting them.)

For branching I presume, e.g. from the Emacs repo:

...
* a176f79  2011-01-22  Update configure
* cc62ed3  2011-01-22  configure.in: Don't zero-out FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS and FONTCONFIG_LIBS when building with XFT (doing so is incorrect, as Emacs directly uses fontconfig, and breaks building when using a strict linker).
* c1c7cc4  2011-01-21  Add pcomplete support for hosts defined in .ssh/config.
*   16ea2fd  2011-01-21  Merge: src/config.in: shrink slightly
|\  
| * 95d0549  2011-01-21  src/config.in: shrink slightly
* | 06f3ebc  2011-01-21  gnus-art.el (gnus-mime-display-single): Use mm-display-inline rather than mm-insert-inline.
|/  
* 95b29e3  2011-01-21  aclocal.m4: tweaks to regenerate more conveniently
* b2caa9a  2011-01-21  * gnus-art.el (gnus-button-alist, gnus-button-handle-info-keystrokes): Don't confuse the "ret" of "retrograde" with RET.
...

-miles

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