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@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ format (with the subject enclosed in a pair of double-quotes), or this
invocation of `git show`:
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+ git show -s --pretty=reference <commit>
+....
+
+or, on an older version of Git without support for --pretty=reference:
+
+....
git show -s --date=short --pretty='format:%h (%s, %ad)' <commit>
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