Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rev-parse: Fix --short= option parsing

From: Jonas Fonseca <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:07:09 +0100

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote Fri, Feb 17, 2006:
> > Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <[email-masked]>
> >
> > ---
> > commit 013b99654ee464856d266a72f0203d0fee2b0d11
> > tree 3c961d6ebb8b9805ee3950ec081679de15f5a9ba
> > parent 16e2efc524d181cf46dcb252532139a0aff4a28f
> > author Jonas Fonseca <[email-masked]> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:05:11 +0100
> > committer Jonas Fonseca <[email-masked]> Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:05:11 +0100
> 
> BTW, what git-based tool do you use to spit out this ugly format?

Cogito.

> Full object name of the parent commit is useful only if the
> recipient has that object, and it is not one of mine, so it is
> unlikely nobody but you would have it.  Name of the tree is what
> you would get _after_ applying this patch, so it also is not
> very useful for e-mail communication.

I agree most of this is useless and will look into making a patch to so
Cogito will also use the more or less standard From and Date headers
with parent prefixed to the diff.

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Jonas Fonseca