Re: [FEATURE-REQUEST] difftool --dir-diff: use the commit names as directory names instead of left/right

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
Date: Mar 23, 2013, 15:30 UTC
Message-ID: <1364052618.5363.5.camel@fermat.scientia.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130323123603.GL2283@serenity.lan>

On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 12:36 +0000, John Keeping wrote:

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> > What do you all think about something like the output of
> > "git describe --always" instead of the SHA-1?
> I think Christoph was suggesting that it should use the revision as
> specified by the user, presumably falling back to HEAD when only one
> revision has been specified.

That was the idea... cause it has the best chance of being somehow remembered/recognised by the user... Taking any description, doesn't necessarily mean that the user has ever seen this before or remembers it.

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> I suspect in that case we have
> to be careful about special characters, perhaps it's best to just fall
> back to the SHA1 if we encounter something like
> "origin/master^{/^diff.c}" which is likely to cause issues with shell
> quoting.

Or maybe just pseudo-quote any such special characters by "_". Otherwise,... one might have to many cases, where one falls back to the SHA1... and looses a lot of the benefits.

Cheers, Chris.