Re: [PATCH v3 06/12] get_short_oid: sort ambiguous objects by type, then SHA-1

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 8, 2018, 14:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20180508144443.GC30183@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180501184016.15061-7-avarab@gmail.com>

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 06:40:10PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> Change the output emitted when an ambiguous object is encountered so
> that we show tags first, then commits, followed by trees, and finally
> blobs. Within each type we show objects in hashcmp() order. Before
> this change the objects were only ordered by hashcmp().
> 
> The reason for doing this is that the output looks better as a result,
> e.g. the v2.17.0 tag before this change on "git show e8f2" would
> display:

FWIW, I agree that this gives a big improvement to readability.

-Peff

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