Re: [PATCH] Teach git-describe --long to output always the long format

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 25, 2008, 02:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20080225023634.GK8410@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <1203864412-27977-1-git-send-email-sbejar@gmail.com>

Santi Bjar <sbejar@gmail.com> wrote:

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> @@ -155,7 +156,11 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
>  
>  	n = cmit->util;
>  	if (n) {
> -		printf("%s\n", n->path);
> +		if (!longformat)
> +			printf("%s\n", n->path );

Extra whitespace after the "path".

> +		else
> +			printf("%s-0-g%s\n", n->path,
> +				find_unique_abbrev(cmit->object.sha1, abbrev));

Is this really that useful? Where is having the tag and the commit SHA-1 both useful?

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>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -254,6 +259,7 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "debug",      &debug, "debug search strategy on stderr"),
>  		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "all",        &all, "use any ref in .git/refs"),
>  		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tags",       &tags, "use any tag in .git/refs/tags"),
> +		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "long",       &longformat, "always use long format"),

Documentation?

-- 
Shawn.