Subject: Re: Re* [PATCH] git-submodule: Don't blame when git-describe fails

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:41:52 -0500

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
> -- >8 --
> describe --always: fall back to showing an abbreviated object name
...
> diff --git a/builtin-describe.c b/builtin-describe.c
> index 05e309f..c1182a3 100644
> --- a/builtin-describe.c
> +++ b/builtin-describe.c
> @@ -146,6 +147,17 @@ static unsigned long finish_depth_computation(
>  	return seen_commits;
>  }
>  
> +static void cannot_describe(const unsigned char *sha1) NORETURN;
> +
> +static void cannot_describe(const unsigned char *sha1)
> +{
> +	if (always) {
> +		printf("%s\n", find_unique_abbrev(sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV));

This should be "abbrev" not "DEFAULT_ABBREV" as then we honor the
command line "describe --always --abbrev=16" (for example).

> @@ -278,6 +290,8 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  			    "consider <n> most recent tags (default: 10)"),
>  		OPT_STRING(0, "match",       &pattern, "pattern",
>  			   "only consider tags matching <pattern>"),
> +		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "always",     &always,
> +			   "show abbreviated commit object as fallback"),
>  		OPT_END(),
>  	};
  
Sadly I cannot come up with a better name for this option.  :-(

-- 
Shawn.