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diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index b055a673d8..561cc9f7d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -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' @@ -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 |