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Wizard
Wizard

Reputation: 22093

what does "" mean in `--pretty=""` of git log

I learned a new option --pretty="" 

$ git log --pretty=""  --name-only
Algorithms/GrokkingAlgorithms/grokkingAlgorithms.md
Untitled.md
_manual.md
drafts.md

what does "" mean here?

I checked --pretty=format but found no --pretty="".

Upvotes: 2

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Werner Henze
Werner Henze

Reputation: 16726

--pretty="" defines the output format to "". This means that for each commit you just get an empty string "" as output.

The overall effect of your command is that you see a list of the changed files but without the rest of the information about a commit (like for example commit ID, author, date, commit text).

Upvotes: 4

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