[plandis]

It doesn't seem any more egregious than something like:

`git log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --`

Which is something I see a lot of people alias in Git for viewing logs.

[skydhash]

> `git log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --`

If you remove the rainbow specification, it should be

  git log --graph --pretty=format:'%h -%d %s (%cr) <%an>' --abbrev-commit --

And most programmers are used to C style formatting.