Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: Improve FAQ on early breakpoint for ASLR

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 05/12/2022 15:23, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Nov 28 13:00, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> On 15/11/2022 10:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It would be great if we could get used to using the same syntax as the
>>>> Linux kernel project to document stuff.  I'm trying to follow their lead
>>>> for a while.  For fixes to former commits, it looks like this in the
>>>> kernel, at the end of the commit message:
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 123456789012 ("title of commit 123456789012")
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, core.abbrev is 12 digits.  I'm using this setting for quite some
>>>> time locally.
>>>
>>> Sounds good.  Is there some script to automate generating this kind of
>>> comment from a commit-id?
>>
>> I don't think so, at least I don't see anything like that in git docs...
> 
> It's note _quite_ what you asked for, but `git show --pretty=reference -s
> <commit>` (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-show#_pretty_formats) gives you
> _almost_ what you are looking for.
> 
> But you can always call `git show -s --format='%h ("%s")' <commit>`, and
> even configure an alias for this:
> 
> 	git config --global alias.pretty-print-commit \
> 		"-c core.abbrev=12 show -s --format='%h (\"%s\")'"
> 
Thanks!

I added '-c core.pager=', but this is what I was looking for, to save a 
bit of copying and pasting and editing.