From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 11:01:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] for-each-ref: Field with abbreviated objectname
Message-ID: <20100504110134.GA7947@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <61d114759b023b3937f8417ce44c3361f345c6f1.1272918259.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:25:19PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> Introduce a :short modifier to objectname which outputs the abbreviated
> object name.

I don't see any reason not to do this if you have a use for it.

>     TODO: test, doc

Yep.

> +		else if (!strcmp(name, "objectname:short")) {
> +			v->s = find_unique_abbrev(obj->sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV);
> +		}

In theory there could be multiple such ":$foo" tags, and we would have
to fix this parser. But given that there aren't other modifiers now, I
think we can just push that problem off until it happens (if ever).

-Peff