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@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ have limited your view of history: for example, if you are
only interested in changes related to a certain directory or
file.
-Here are some additional details for each format:
+There are several built-in formats, and you can define
+additional formats by setting a pretty.<name>
+config option to either another format name, or a
+'format:' string, as described below (see
+linkgit:git-config[1]). Here are the details of the
+built-in formats:
* 'oneline'
@@ -76,9 +81,9 @@ displayed in full, regardless of whether --abbrev or
true parent commits, without taking grafts nor history
simplification into account.
-* 'format:'
+* 'format:<string>'
+
-The 'format:' format allows you to specify which information
+The 'format:<string>' format allows you to specify which information
you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format,
with the notable exception that you get a newline with '%n'
instead of '\n'.
@@ -154,6 +159,10 @@ If you add a `-` (minus sign) after '%' of a placeholder, line-feeds that
immediately precede the expansion are deleted if and only if the
placeholder expands to an empty string.
+If you add a ` ` (space) after '%' of a placeholder, a space
+is inserted immediately before the expansion if and only if the
+placeholder expands to a non-empty string.
+
* 'tformat:'
+
The 'tformat:' format works exactly like 'format:', except that it