Add --format that is a synonym to --pretty

Some people prefer to call the pretty-print styles "format", and get
annoyed to see "git log --format=short" fail.  Introduce it as a synonym
to --pretty so that both can be used.

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 5f21efe40745a98eafff7df67a916b1f1193fae4..65960192e8d32dc45e000d0c343350d0cf5e578f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 --pretty[='<format>']::
+--format[='<format>']::
 
        Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
        where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 286e416b757fa8df731330992fca96773082f75d..556c3195b4eed3e17df496a5d34537aa98e315c3 100644 (file)
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ static int handle_revision_opt(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **arg
        } else if (!strcmp(arg, "--pretty")) {
                revs->verbose_header = 1;
                get_commit_format(arg+8, revs);
-       } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--pretty=")) {
+       } else if (!prefixcmp(arg, "--pretty=") || !prefixcmp(arg, "--format=")) {
                revs->verbose_header = 1;
                get_commit_format(arg+9, revs);
        } else if (!strcmp(arg, "--graph")) {