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Re: [PATCH RFC] cherry: support --abbrev option

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 15, 2010, 17:13 UTC
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> writes:
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> Switch to parse-options API while we're at it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> I sometimes find it useful to look at the commit-subject together with
> the SHA-1s. Using --abbrev increases the chance that the lines fits on
> an 80 character wide terminal, making the output easier to read.

Even though "cherry" historically was meant to be a low-level helper for Porcelain scripts, I've seen people use it as the top-level UI, and I think what the patch tries to do makes sense.

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  1. cherry: support --abbrev optionErik Faye-Lund, Mar 15, 2010
  2. René ScharfeMar 15, 2010
  3. Erik Faye-LundMar 15, 2010
  4. René ScharfeMar 15, 2010
  5. Erik Faye-LundMar 15, 2010
  6. René ScharfeMar 16, 2010
  7. Erik Faye-LundMar 16, 2010
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 15, 2010
  10. Erik Faye-LundMar 15, 2010

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