Re: [PATCH] diff: --abbrev option

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 18, 2005, 02:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7vek4byuwg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051218001756.GS22159@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> 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.