Re: [PATCH] diff: --abbrev option

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Dec 18, 2005, 11:45 UTC
Message-ID: <20051218114522.GW22159@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vek4byuwg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:57:19AM CET, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> >   I was actually thinking to by default trim all the hashes Cogito show
> > to 12 or 16 characters. Seven still seems dangerously low to me, though;
> > it would be nice if the number of characters to trim would be
> > configurable (unless I've missed that).
> 
> Well, I did better than you imagined this time, for a change ;-)
> It trims and adds extra as needed without breaking alignments,
> so you could get something like this:
> 
> >       :100755 100755 0266f46... b0e54ed... M	git-branch.sh
> >       :100755 100755 f241d4b9.. 36308d2ab. M	git-checkout.sh
> 
> That is, ... is not just distraction but are part of the
> design.  Cut and paste is a byproduct.

Ok, that's nice! :-) And if I'm going to machine-process this later, I can just trim the trailing dots anyway. And it seems that I can give --abbrev a number argument to specify the minimal abbreviation, even cooler! :-)

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