Re: git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name

>> diff --git a/builtin-rev-parse.c b/builtin-rev-parse.c
>> index 81d5a6f..70f4a33 100644
>> --- a/builtin-rev-parse.c
>> +++ b/builtin-rev-parse.c
>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ static int show_type = NORMAL;
>>
>>  #define SHOW_SYMBOLIC_ASIS 1
>>  #define SHOW_SYMBOLIC_FULL 2
>> +#define SHOW_SYMBOLIC_SHORT 3
>>  static int symbolic;
>>  static int abbrev;
>>  static int output_sq;
>
> I think --symbolic-short makes the most sense.
>

>> @@ -125,13 +129,20 @@ static void show_rev(int type, const unsigned char *sha1, const char *name)
>>                                */
>>                               break;
>>                       case 1: /* happy */
>> +                             if (symbolic == SHOW_SYMBOLIC_SHORT) {
>> +                                     char *p;
>> +                                     p = strrchr(full, (int)'/');
>> +                                     if (p != NULL)
>> +                                             full = p + 1;
>> +                             }
>
> However, this is not a good way to do it, I suspect.  This patch most
> likely will be queued to the al/symbolic-short topic branch, but you are
> losing information here.  You'd probably want to try substings from the
> tail of the full name (e.g. symbolic-short, al/symbolic-short,
> heads/al/symbolic-short, and finally refs/heads/al/symbolic-short) and
> feed them to dwim_ref() and pick the shortest one that yields the same ref
> unambiguously, or something like that.
>