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+--pretty[='<format>']::
+
+ Pretty-print the contents of the commit logs in a given format,
+ where '<format>' can be one of 'oneline', 'short', 'medium',
+ 'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
+ When omitted, the format defaults to 'medium'.
+
+--abbrev-commit::
+ Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
+ name, show only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of
+ digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
+ diff output, if it is displayed).
++
+This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable for
+people using 80-column terminals.
+
+--encoding[=<encoding>]::
+ The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
+ in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
+ command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
+ preferred by the user. For non plumbing commands this
+ defaults to UTF-8.