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Re: [PATCH 3/3] git abbref-ref: new porcelain for abbreviate_ref()

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 22, 2008, 15:55 UTC
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> This gives direct access to the abbreviate_ref() function. The operation
>> mode defaults to the core.warnambiguousrefs value, like the refname:short
>> format, but can be explicitly changed with the --{,no}-strict option.
>> 
>> The bash completion script utilizes this new command.
>
> And it slows down too, doesn't it?  Now we are doing a fork per
> branch during completion.  Yikes.  Didn't you just post a series
> about making completion faster?
>  
>> Junio, if this is not a porcelain, tell me.
>
> IMHO its plumbing.  Porcelain is used by a human.  Plumbing is the
> bits needed to make human interfaces.
Shawn is right.

I wouldn't be taking this patch to add a new command, but I suspect that this could be an option to rev-parse that is similar to --symbolic.

Teach SHOW_SYMBOLIC_SHORTEST to builtin-rev-parse.c::show_rev(), teach the parser cmd_rev_parse() a new option --symbolic-abbrev and you are done, right?

By the way, I found it amusing to see Cc: lines _after_ three dashes to control send-email --- nice trick I didn't think of ;-)

Previous: Shawn O. PearceNext: Bert Wesarg
Message 5 of 16 in “for-each-ref: utilize core.warnambiguousrefs for strict refname:short format”
  1. 1/3 for-each-ref: utilize core.warnambiguousrefs for strict refname:short formatBert Wesarg, Sep 22, 2008
  2. 2/3 for-each-ref: factor out get_short_ref() into refs.c:abbreviate_refname()Bert Wesarg, Sep 22, 2008
  3. 3/3 git abbref-ref: new porcelain for abbreviate_ref()Bert Wesarg, Sep 22, 2008
  4. Shawn O. PearceSep 22, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2008
  6. Bert WesargSep 22, 2008
  7. Bert WesargSep 22, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 22, 2008
  9. Bert WesargSep 22, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2008
  11. Shawn O. PearceOct 18, 2008
  12. Bert WesargOct 18, 2008
  13. get_short_ref(): add strict modeBert Wesarg, Apr 11, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2009
  15. Bert WesargApr 11, 2009
  16. for-each-ref: refname:short utilize core.warnAmbiguousRefsBert Wesarg, Apr 11, 2009

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