From: Petr Baudis Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:45:22 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: --abbrev option 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 said that... > Petr Baudis 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! :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.