Badly passed --pretty argument

[yvvki]

Running this command should yield a correct pretty formatted git log:

git log -5 --pretty=tformat:' * %C(yellow)%h%Creset %<|(72,trunc)%s %C(cyan)%cr%Creset'

However, doing the argument passed by wslgit doesn't pass the %<|(72,trunc) correctly, it would print something like this instead:

 * abc123456 %\<|(72,trunc)feat: commit message 10 minutes ago

Notice the appended \ just before the < symbol.

[andy-5]

It seems to work just fine for me, using the exact command you posted from powershell (with git version 2.43.0 in WSL).
From cmd.exe it does only work if I change the quotes from ' to ".

However, I can't get the incorrect escaping behavior that you observed. Are you using the latest version of wslgit? Do you have any special configuration, e.g. environment variables for wslgit?

[yvvki]

I tried using CMD and changed the quote as you suggested, but the appended \ still persist.
I used the latest Ubuntu (24.04.1 LTS) on WSL2 (2.3.24.0) on Windows 11 (26100.2033) and updated my packages via apt update && apt upgrade (git version 2.43.0). The I deleted my WSLENV environment variable to set it to its default but the issue still persist.

Here's my wsl --version

WSL version: 2.3.24.0
Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-2
WSLg version: 1.0.65
MSRDC version: 1.2.5620
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore version: 10.0.26100.1-240331-1435.ge-release
Windows version: 10.0.26100.2033

I wonder what was your configuration?

[andy-5]

Sorry for the late reply.

My configuration is almost exactly the same, except I'm on Windows 10:

> wsl --version
WSL-Version: 2.3.24.0
Kernelversion: 5.15.153.1-2
WSLg-Version: 1.0.65
MSRDC-Version: 1.2.5620
Direct3D-Version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore-Version: 10.0.26100.1-240331-1435.ge-release
Windows-Version: 10.0.19045.4529

Not sure what makes the difference here, I'll try to do some testing if I find some time.