Re: Any objectsions to enhancing git-log to show tags/branch heads?

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 04:00:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Nice! And you did it far more efficiently than I probably would have done it if I tried to code it. :-)

The one thing that's a bit unfortunate is that with the commit ID taking up 40 characters, very often there's not enough space on the screen to display all of the tags and references (and with the default less options being hardcoded as "-FRSX", the ones that go beyond the width of the screen get lost.

So I tried to use --abbrev, and it didn't shrink the size of the id, like I thought it would. It didn't object to the option, but apparently it ignored it. Funny, I thought it worked before, but it wasn't before I applied the patch, so it wasn't your patches that were at fault.

It would be nice if the --pretty=format had a way of specifying the decorations, so it would be possible to have a format more like:

Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date:   Mon Apr 16 15:49:58 2007 -0700
Head: origin/master
Head: master
Tag: v2.6.20-rc7-ext4-1 (signed)

... but that's something I can work on supplying as a patch, given that you've written the underlying machinery.

					- Ted