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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-list: heed --abbrev-commit option
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:30:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAE0874.6090603@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vk4sylvzj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 26.03.2010 20:32:
> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> Currently, rev-list has a default of "0" for abbrev which means that
>> switching on abbreviations with --abbrev-commit has no visible effect,
>> even though the option is documented.
> 
> Hmm, I actually think this was deliberate.  rev-list is designed to be a
> low level machinery for getting full object names, and in that context,
> setting the default abbreviation length to "don't abbreviate" gave us some
> safety, with additional safety of requiring a separate --abbrev-commit
> option to affect the main "show the commit object names" codepath (the
> latter of which would not likely to change).  The caller sets explicitly
> how long an output it wants (see git-rebase--interactive for an example).

My thinking was that unless --abbrev-commit is specified, nothing is
abbreviated, so that one has reproducible (plumbing) behaviour.

I learned that --abbrev= implies --abbrev-commit, but again, this means
explicitly requiring non-plumbing behavior.

> 
> Having said that, I don't think this would break existing scripts, so
> let's queue it and see what happens.

OK!
Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-27 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-22 11:30 git rev-list formatting Eli Barzilay
2010-03-22 11:39 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-03-22 13:08   ` Michael J Gruber
2010-03-22 13:36     ` [PATCH] rev-list: heed --abbrev-commit option Michael J Gruber
2010-03-26 19:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-03-27 13:30         ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2010-03-22 14:42     ` git rev-list formatting Eli Barzilay
2010-03-22 17:22 ` René Scharfe
2010-03-23  1:57   ` Eli Barzilay
2010-03-23 10:52     ` Michael J Gruber
2010-03-23 11:06       ` Eli Barzilay
2010-03-23 12:26         ` Jeff King
2010-03-23 12:40           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-03-23 12:59           ` Eli Barzilay

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