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+--pretty[='<format>']::
+
+ Pretty print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
+ where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
+ 'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
+ When left out the format default to 'medium'.
+
+--encoding[=<encoding>]::
+ The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
+ in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
+ command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
+ preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this
+ defaults to UTF-8.
+