diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 92f851e797c..b41f39de7ce 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1466,6 +1466,16 @@ pager.<cmd>::
it takes precedence over this option. To disable pagination for
all commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`.
+pretty.<name>::
+ Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
+ linkgit:git-log[1]. Any aliases defined here can be used just
+ as the built-in pretty formats could. For example,
+ running `git config pretty.changelog "format:{asterisk} %H %s"`
+ would cause the invocation `git log --pretty=changelog`
+ to be equivalent to running `git log "--pretty=format:{asterisk} %H %s"`.
+ Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format
+ will be silently ignored.
+
pull.octopus::
The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
at once.
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt
index 1686a54d22a..5e95df6ba34 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'
diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index c2c8901f8f8..aaf80207c94 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ static struct cmt_fmt_map {
int is_alias;
const char *user_format;
} *commit_formats;
+static size_t builtin_formats_len;
static size_t commit_formats_len;
+static size_t commit_formats_alloc;
static struct cmt_fmt_map *find_commit_format(const char *sought);
static void save_user_format(struct rev_info *rev, const char *cp, int is_tformat)
@@ -30,6 +32,51 @@ static void save_user_format(struct rev_info *rev, const char *cp, int is_tforma
rev->commit_format = CMIT_FMT_USERFORMAT;
}
+static int git_pretty_formats_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
+{
+ struct cmt_fmt_map *commit_format = NULL;
+ const char *name;
+ const char *fmt;
+ int i;
+
+ if (prefixcmp(var, "pretty."))
+ return 0;
+
+ name = var + strlen("pretty.");
+ for (i = 0; i < builtin_formats_len; i++) {
+ if (!strcmp(commit_formats[i].name, name))
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ for (i = builtin_formats_len; i < commit_formats_len; i++) {
+ if (!strcmp(commit_formats[i].name, name)) {
+ commit_format = &commit_formats[i];
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (!commit_format) {
+ ALLOC_GROW(commit_formats, commit_formats_len+1,
+ commit_formats_alloc);
+ commit_format = &commit_formats[commit_formats_len];
+ commit_formats_len++;
+ }
+
+ commit_format->name = xstrdup(name);
+ commit_format->format = CMIT_FMT_USERFORMAT;
+ git_config_string(&fmt, var, value);
+ if (!prefixcmp(fmt, "format:") || !prefixcmp(fmt, "tformat:")) {
+ commit_format->is_tformat = fmt[0] == 't';
+ fmt = strchr(fmt, ':') + 1;
+ } else if (strchr(fmt, '%'))
+ commit_format->is_tformat = 1;
+ else
+ commit_format->is_alias = 1;
+ commit_format->user_format = fmt;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static void setup_commit_formats(void)
{
struct cmt_fmt_map builtin_formats[] = {
@@ -42,10 +89,12 @@ static void setup_commit_formats(void)
{ "oneline", CMIT_FMT_ONELINE, 1 }
};
commit_formats_len = ARRAY_SIZE(builtin_formats);
- commit_formats = xmalloc(commit_formats_len *
- sizeof(*builtin_formats));
+ builtin_formats_len = commit_formats_len;
+ ALLOC_GROW(commit_formats, commit_formats_len, commit_formats_alloc);
memcpy(commit_formats, builtin_formats,
sizeof(*builtin_formats)*ARRAY_SIZE(builtin_formats));
+
+ git_config(git_pretty_formats_config, NULL);
}
static struct cmt_fmt_map *find_commit_format_recursive(const char *sought,
@@ -116,6 +165,10 @@ void get_commit_format(const char *arg, struct rev_info *rev)
rev->commit_format = commit_format->format;
rev->use_terminator = commit_format->is_tformat;
+ if (commit_format->format == CMIT_FMT_USERFORMAT) {
+ save_user_format(rev, commit_format->user_format,
+ commit_format->is_tformat);
+ }
}
/*
diff --git a/t/t4205-log-pretty-formats.sh b/t/t4205-log-pretty-formats.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..cb9f2bdd295
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4205-log-pretty-formats.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010, Will Palmer
+#
+
+test_description='Test pretty formats'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'set up basic repos' '
+ >foo &&
+ >bar &&
+ git add foo &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit -m initial &&
+ git add bar &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit -m "add bar"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'alias builtin format' '
+ git log --pretty=oneline >expected &&
+ git config pretty.test-alias oneline &&
+ git log --pretty=test-alias >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'alias masking builtin format' '
+ git log --pretty=oneline >expected &&
+ git config pretty.oneline "%H" &&
+ git log --pretty=oneline >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'alias user-defined format' '
+ git log --pretty="format:%h" >expected &&
+ git config pretty.test-alias "format:%h" &&
+ git log --pretty=test-alias >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'alias user-defined tformat' '
+ git log --pretty="tformat:%h" >expected &&
+ git config pretty.test-alias "tformat:%h" &&
+ git log --pretty=test-alias >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'alias non-existant format' '
+ git config pretty.test-alias format-that-will-never-exist &&
+ test_must_fail git log --pretty=test-alias
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'alias of an alias' '
+ git log --pretty="tformat:%h" >expected &&
+ git config pretty.test-foo "tformat:%h" &&
+ git config pretty.test-bar test-foo &&
+ git log --pretty=test-bar >actual && test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'alias masking an alias' '
+ git log --pretty=format:"Two %H" >expected &&
+ git config pretty.duplicate "format:One %H" &&
+ git config --add pretty.duplicate "format:Two %H" &&
+ git log --pretty=duplicate >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'alias loop' '
+ git config pretty.test-foo test-bar &&
+ git config pretty.test-bar test-foo &&
+ test_must_fail git log --pretty=test-foo
+'
+
+test_done