From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:13:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] cherry: support --abbrev option
Message-ID: <7vwrxdse24.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1268668999-4188-1-git-send-email-kusmabite@gmail.com>

Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> writes:

> 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.