On December 11, 2022 2:54:02 PM GMT+01:00, Jon Turney
<jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>On 05/12/2022 15:23, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Nov 28 13:00, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>> On 15/11/2022 10:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be great if we could get used to using the same syntax as the
>>>>> Linux kernel project to document stuff. I'm trying to follow their lead
>>>>> for a while. For fixes to former commits, it looks like this in the
>>>>> kernel, at the end of the commit message:
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 123456789012 ("title of commit 123456789012")
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, core.abbrev is 12 digits. I'm using this setting for quite some
>>>>> time locally.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds good. Is there some script to automate generating this kind of
>>>> comment from a commit-id?
>>>
>>> I don't think so, at least I don't see anything like that in git docs...
>>
>> It's note _quite_ what you asked for, but `git show --pretty=reference -s
>> <commit>` (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-show#_pretty_formats) gives you
>> _almost_ what you are looking for.
>>
>> But you can always call `git show -s --format='%h ("%s")' <commit>`, and
>> even configure an alias for this:
>>
>> git config --global alias.pretty-print-commit \
>> "-c core.abbrev=12 show -s --format='%h (\"%s\")'"
>>
>Thanks!
>
>I added '-c core.pager=', but this is what I was looking for, to save a
>bit of copying and pasting and editing.
>
Better use `git -P`, then... (see
https://git-scm.com/docs/git#Documentation/git.txt--P for full details)
