The previous commits added clarifications to the column alignment
placeholders, note that the spaces are optional around the parameters.
Also, a proposed extension [1] to allow hard truncation (without
ellipsis '..') highlighted that the existing code does not play well
with wide characters, such as Asian fonts and emojis.
For example, N wide characters take 2N columns so won't fit an odd number
column width, causing misalignment somewhere.
Further analysis also showed that decomposed characters, e.g. separate
`a` + `umlaut` Unicode code-points may also be mis-counted, in some cases
leaving multiple loose `umlauts` all combined together.
Add some notes about these limitations, and add basic tests to demonstrate
them.
The chosen solution for the tests is to substitute any wide character
that overlaps a splitting boundary for the unicode vertical ellipsis
code point as a rare but 'obvious' substitution.
An alternative could be the substitution with a single dot '.' which
matches regular expression usage, and our two dot ellipsis, and further
in scenarios where the bulk of the text is wide characters, would be
obvious. In mainly 'ascii' scenarios a singleton emoji being substituted
by a dot could be confusing.
It is enough that the tests fail cleanly. The final choice for the
substitute character can be deferred.
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20221030185614.3842-1-philipoakley@iee.email/
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a7f01c6b4d (pretty: support truncating in %>, %< and %><,
2013-04-19) added the use of ellipsis when truncating placeholder
values.
Show our 'two dot' ellipsis, and examples for the left, middle and
right truncation to avoid any confusion as to which end of the string
is adjusted. (cf justification and sub-string).
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 066790d7cb (pretty.c: support <direction>|(<negative number>) forms,
2016-06-16) added the option for right justified column alignment without
updating the documentation.
Add an explanation of its use of negative column values.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a57523428b (pretty: support padding placeholders, %< %> and %><,
2013-04-19) introduced column width place holders. It also added
separate column position `%<|(` placeholders for display screen based
placement.
Change the display screen parameter reference from 'N' to 'M' and
corresponding descriptives to make the distinction clearer.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit a57523428b (pretty: support padding placeholders, %< %> and %><,
2013-04-19) introduced columnated place holders. These placeholders
can be confusing as they contain `<` and `>` characters as part
of their placeholders adjacent to the `<N>` parameters.
Add spaces either side of the `<N>` parameters in the title line.
The code (strtol) will consume any spaces around the number values
(assuming they are passed as a quoted string with spaces).
Note that the spaces are optional.
Subsequent commits will clarify other confusions.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
According to CodingGuidelines, multi-word placeholders should use
hyphens as word separators.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The %(describe) placeholder by default, like `git describe`, uses a
seven-character abbreviated commit object name. This may not be
sufficient to fully describe all commits in a given repository,
resulting in a placeholder replacement changing its length because the
repository grew in size. This could cause the output of git-archive to
change.
Add the --abbrev option to `git describe` to the placeholder interface
in order to provide tools to the user for fine-tuning project defaults
and ensure reproducible archives.
One alternative would be to just always specify --abbrev=40 but this may
be a bit too biased...
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The %(describe) placeholder by default, like `git describe`, only
supports annotated tags. However, some people do use lightweight tags
for releases, and would like to describe those anyway. The command line
tool has an option to support this.
Teach the placeholder to support this as well.
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of "%ch" is missing a space after "human style", before
the parenthetical remark. This description was introduced in b722d4560e
("pretty: provide human date format", 2021-04-25). That commit also
added "%ah", which does have the space already.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the placeholders %ah and %ch to format author date and committer
date, like --date=human does, which provides more humanity date output.
Signed-off-by: ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Each %(describe) placeholder is expanded using a separate git describe
call. Their outputs depend on the tags present at the time, so there's
no consistency guarantee. Document that fact.
Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow restricting the tags used by the placeholder %(describe) with the
options match and exclude. E.g. the following command describes the
current commit using official version tags, without those for release
candidates:
$ git log -1 --format='%(describe:match=v[0-9]*,exclude=*rc*)'
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a format placeholder for describe output. Implement it by actually
calling git describe, which is simple and guarantees correctness. It's
intended to be used with $Format:...$ in files with the attribute
export-subst and git archive. It can also be used with git log etc.,
even though that's going to be slow due to the fork for each commit.
Suggested-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change the documentation for the various %(trailers) options so it
isn't repeating part of the documentation for "only" about how boolean
values are handled. Instead, let's split the description of that into
general documentation at the top.
It then suffices to refer to it by listing the options as
"opt[=<BOOL>]". I'm also changing it to upper-case "[=<BOOL>]" from
"[=val]" for consistency with "<SEP>"
It took me a couple of readings to realize that these options were
referring back to the "only" option's treatment of boolean
values.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a "key_value_separator" option to the "%(trailers)" pretty format,
to go along with the existing "separator" argument. In combination
these two options make it trivial to produce machine-readable (e.g. \0
and \0\0-delimited) format output.
As elaborated on in a previous commit which added "keyonly" it was
needlessly tedious to extract structured data from "%(trailers)"
before the addition of this "key_value_separator" option. As seen by
the test being added here extracting this data now becomes trivial.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for a "keyonly". This allows for easier parsing out of the
key and value. Before if you didn't want to make assumptions about how
the key was formatted. You'd need to parse it out as e.g.:
--pretty=format:'%H%x00%(trailers:separator=%x00%x00)' \
'%x00%(trailers:separator=%x00%x00,valueonly)'
And then proceed to deduce keys by looking at those two and
subtracting the value plus the hardcoded ": " separator from the
non-valueonly %(trailers) line. Now it's possible to simply do:
--pretty=format:'%H%x00%(trailers:separator=%x00%x00,keyonly)' \
'%x00%(trailers:separator=%x00%x00,valueonly)'
Which at least reduces it to a state machine where you get N keys and
correlate them with N values. Even better would be to have a way to
change the ": " delimiter to something easily machine-readable (a key
might contain ": " too). A follow-up change will add support for that.
I don't really have a use-case for just "keyonly" myself. I suppose it
would be useful in some cases as "key=*" matches case-insensitively,
so a plain "keyonly" will give you the variants of the keys you
matched. I'm mainly adding it to fix the inconsistency with
"valueonly".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "mboxrd" pretty format was introduced in 9f23e04061 (pretty: support
"mboxrd" output format, 2016-06-05) but wasn't mentioned in the
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Emma Brooks <me@pluvano.com>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to
tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum
trust level.
* hi/gpg-mintrustlevel:
gpg-interface: add minTrustLevel as a configuration option
Previously, signature verification for merge and pull operations checked
if the key had a trust-level of either TRUST_NEVER or TRUST_UNDEFINED in
verify_merge_signature(). If that was the case, the process die()d.
The other code paths that did signature verification relied entirely on
the return code from check_commit_signature(). And signatures made with
a good key, irregardless of its trust level, was considered valid by
check_commit_signature().
This difference in behavior might induce users to erroneously assume
that the trust level of a key in their keyring is always considered by
Git, even for operations where it is not (e.g. during a verify-commit or
verify-tag).
The way it worked was by gpg-interface.c storing the result from the
key/signature status *and* the lowest-two trust levels in the `result`
member of the signature_check structure (the last of these status lines
that were encountered got written to `result`). These are documented in
GPG under the subsection `General status codes` and `Key related`,
respectively [1].
The GPG documentation says the following on the TRUST_ status codes [1]:
"""
These are several similar status codes:
- TRUST_UNDEFINED <error_token>
- TRUST_NEVER <error_token>
- TRUST_MARGINAL [0 [<validation_model>]]
- TRUST_FULLY [0 [<validation_model>]]
- TRUST_ULTIMATE [0 [<validation_model>]]
For good signatures one of these status lines are emitted to
indicate the validity of the key used to create the signature.
The error token values are currently only emitted by gpgsm.
"""
My interpretation is that the trust level is conceptionally different
from the validity of the key and/or signature. That seems to also have
been the assumption of the old code in check_signature() where a result
of 'G' (as in GOODSIG) and 'U' (as in TRUST_NEVER or TRUST_UNDEFINED)
were both considered a success.
The two cases where a result of 'U' had special meaning were in
verify_merge_signature() (where this caused git to die()) and in
format_commit_one() (where it affected the output of the %G? format
specifier).
I think it makes sense to refactor the processing of TRUST_ status lines
such that users can configure a minimum trust level that is enforced
globally, rather than have individual parts of git (e.g. merge) do it
themselves (except for a grace period with backward compatibility).
I also think it makes sense to not store the trust level in the same
struct member as the key/signature status. While the presence of a
TRUST_ status code does imply that the signature is good (see the first
paragraph in the included snippet above), as far as I can tell, the
order of the status lines from GPG isn't well-defined; thus it would
seem plausible that the trust level could be overwritten with the
key/signature status if they were stored in the same member of the
signature_check structure.
This patch introduces a new configuration option: gpg.minTrustLevel. It
consolidates trust-level verification to gpg-interface.c and adds a new
`trust_level` member to the signature_check structure.
Backward-compatibility is maintained by introducing a special case in
verify_merge_signature() such that if no user-configurable
gpg.minTrustLevel is set, then the old behavior of rejecting
TRUST_UNDEFINED and TRUST_NEVER is enforced. If, on the other hand,
gpg.minTrustLevel is set, then that value overrides the old behavior.
Similarly, the %G? format specifier will continue show 'U' for
signatures made with a key that has a trust level of TRUST_UNDEFINED or
TRUST_NEVER, even though the 'U' character no longer exist in the
`result` member of the signature_check structure. A new format
specifier, %GT, is also introduced for users that want to show all
possible trust levels for a signature.
Another approach would have been to simply drop the trust-level
requirement in verify_merge_signature(). This would also have made the
behavior consistent with other parts of git that perform signature
verification. However, requiring a minimum trust level for signing keys
does seem to have a real-world use-case. For example, the build system
used by the Qubes OS project currently parses the raw output from
verify-tag in order to assert a minimum trust level for keys used to
sign git tags [2].
[1] https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob;f=doc/doc/DETAILS;h=bd00006e933ac56719b1edd2478ecd79273eae72;hb=refs/heads/master
[2] 9674c1991d/scripts/verify-git-tag (L43)
Signed-off-by: Hans Jerry Illikainen <hji@dyntopia.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git log" family learned "--pretty=reference" that gives the name
of a commit in the format that is often used to refer to it in log
messages.
* dl/pretty-reference:
SubmittingPatches: use `--pretty=reference`
pretty: implement 'reference' format
pretty: add struct cmt_fmt_map::default_date_mode_type
pretty: provide short date format
t4205: cover `git log --reflog -z` blindspot
pretty.c: inline initalize format_context
revision: make get_revision_mark() return const pointer
completion: complete `tformat:` pretty format
SubmittingPatches: remove dq from commit reference
pretty-formats.txt: use generic terms for hash
SubmittingPatches: use generic terms for hash
The standard format for referencing other commits within some projects
(such as git.git) is the reference format. This is described in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches as
If you want to reference a previous commit in the history of a stable
branch, use the format "abbreviated hash (subject, date)", like this:
....
Commit f86a374 (pack-bitmap.c: fix a memleak, 2015-03-30)
noticed that ...
....
Since this format is so commonly used, standardize it as a pretty
format.
The tests that are implemented essentially show that the format-string
does not change in response to various log options. This is useful
because, for future developers, it shows that we've considered the
limitations of the "canned format-string" approach and we are fine with
them.
Based-on-a-patch-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the placeholders %as and %cs to format author date and committer
date, respectively, without the time part, like --date=short does, i.e.
like YYYY-MM-DD.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since Git is planning on upgrading from SHA-1 to be more hash-agnostic,
replace specific references to SHA-1 with more generic terminology.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In many projects the number of contributors is low enough that users know
each other and the full email address doesn't need to be displayed.
Displaying only the author's username saves a lot of columns on the screen.
Existing 'e/E' (as in "%ae" and "%aE") placeholders would show the
author's address as "prarit@redhat.com", which would waste columns to show
the same domain-part for all contributors when used in a project internal
to redhat. Introduce 'l/L' placeholders that strip '@' and domain part from
the e-mail address.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move a closing backtick that was placed one character too soon.
Signed-off-by: Cameron Steffen <cam.steffen94@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The %(trailers) formatter in "git log --format=..." now allows to
optionally pick trailers selectively by keyword, show only values,
etc.
* aw/pretty-trailers:
pretty: add support for separator option in %(trailers)
strbuf: separate callback for strbuf_expand:ing literals
pretty: add support for "valueonly" option in %(trailers)
pretty: allow showing specific trailers
pretty: single return path in %(trailers) handling
pretty: allow %(trailers) options with explicit value
doc: group pretty-format.txt placeholders descriptions
Add an apparently missing back-tick to fix a multi-line <code> section
on https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log which seems to have been caused by
commit 18fb7ffc ("pretty: respect color settings [...]", 2017-07-13).
Signed-off-by: Katrin Leinweber <katrin.leinweber@uni-konstanz.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By default trailer lines are terminated by linebreaks ('\n'). By
specifying the new 'separator' option they will instead be separated by
user provided string and have separator semantics rather than terminator
semantics. The separator string can contain the literal formatting codes
%n and %xNN allowing it to be things that are otherwise hard to type
such as %x00, or comma and end-parenthesis which would break parsing.
E.g:
$ git log --pretty='%(trailers:key=Reviewed-by,valueonly,separator=%x00)'
Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the new "key=" option to %(trailers) it often makes little sense to
show the key, as it by definition already is knows which trailer is
printed there. This new "valueonly" option makes it omit the key when
printing trailers.
E.g.:
$ git show -s --pretty='%s%n%(trailers:key=Signed-off-by,valueonly)' aaaa88182
will show:
> upload-pack: fix broken if/else chain in config callback
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Adds a new "key=X" option to "%(trailers)" which will cause it to only
print trailer lines which match any of the specified keys.
Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In addition to old %(trailers:only) it is now allowed to write
%(trailers:only=yes)
By itself this only gives (the not quite so useful) possibility to have
users change their mind in the middle of a formatting
string (%(trailers:only=true,only=false)). However, it gives users the
opportunity to override defaults from future options.
Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make it possible to write for example
git log --format="%H,%S"
where the %S at the end is a new placeholder that prints out the ref
(tag/branch) for each commit.
Using %d might seem like an alternative but it only shows the ref for the last
commit in the branch.
Signed-off-by: Issac Trotts <issactrotts@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The placeholders can be grouped into three kinds:
* literals
* affecting formatting of later placeholders
* expanding to information in commit
Also change the list to a definition list (using '::')
Signed-off-by: Anders Waldenborg <anders@0x63.nu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Obtain the primary key fingerprint off VALIDSIG status message,
and expose it via %GP format.
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Support processing VALIDSIG status that provides additional information
for valid signatures. Use this information to propagate signing key
fingerprint and expose it via %GF pretty format. This format can be
used to build safer key verification systems that verify the key via
complete fingerprint rather than short/long identifier provided by %GK.
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove erroneous space between % and < in '% <(<N>)'.
Signed-off-by: Mårten Kongstad <marten.kongstad@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit 84ff053d47 (pretty.c: delimit "%(trailers)" arguments
with ",", 2017-10-01) switched the syntax of the trailers
placeholder, but forgot to update the documentation in
pretty-formats.txt.
There's no need to mention the old syntax; it was never in a
released version of Git.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git interpret-trailers" has been taught a "--parse" and a few
other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing
trailer lines from a commit log message.
* jk/trailers-parse:
doc/interpret-trailers: fix "the this" typo
pretty: support normalization options for %(trailers)
t4205: refactor %(trailers) tests
pretty: move trailer formatting to trailer.c
interpret-trailers: add --parse convenience option
interpret-trailers: add an option to unfold values
interpret-trailers: add an option to show only existing trailers
interpret-trailers: add an option to show only the trailers
trailer: put process_trailers() options into a struct
The interpret-trailers command recently learned some options
to make its output easier to parse (for a caller whose only
interested in picking out the trailer values). But it's not
very efficient for asking for the trailers of many commits
in a single invocation.
We already have "%(trailers)" to do that, but it doesn't
know about unfolding or omitting non-trailers. Let's plumb
those options through, so you can have the best of both.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The color placeholders have traditionally been
unconditional, showing colors even when git is not otherwise
configured to do so. This was not so bad for their original
use, which was on the command-line (and the user could
decide at that moment whether to add colors or not). But
these days we have configured formats via pretty.*, and
those should operate correctly in multiple contexts.
In 3082517 (log --format: teach %C(auto,black) to respect
color config, 2012-12-17), we gave an extended placeholder
that could be used to accomplish this. But it's rather
clunky to use, because you have to specify it individually
for each color (and their matching resets) in the format.
We shied away from just switching the default to auto,
because it is technically breaking backwards compatibility.
However, there's not really a use case for unconditional
colors. The most plausible reason you would want them is to
redirect "git log" output to a file. But there, the right
answer is --color=always, as it does the right thing both
with custom user-format colors and git-generated colors.
So let's switch to the more useful default. In the
off-chance that somebody really does find a use for
unconditional colors without wanting to enable the rest of
git's colors, we provide a new %C(always,...) to enable the
old behavior. And we can remind them of --color=always in
the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
