Re: git push hook to check for outdated timestamps

On 7/14/15 3:44 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 6/25/15 8:08 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> Because I don't want to have to do git log --format=fuller to see when
>>> the thing was committed, basically.
>>
>> Then I suggest to you the following configuration settings:
>>
>> [format]
>>         pretty=cmedium
>> [pretty]
>>         cmedium="format:%C(auto,yellow)commit %H%C(reset)%nCommit:     %cn <%ce>%nCommitDate: %cd%n%n%w(80,4,4)%B"
> 
> I have been using a slightly tweaked version of this and I have found
> that the %w(80,4,4)%B thingy results in mangled formatting;

I have since refined this to

... %n%n%w(0,4,4)%s%n%+b

You might find that that works better.

One of the curiosities is that the built-in log formats don't appear to
be defined or easily definable in terms of the formatting language.