Re: [PATCH] ls-tree: add --abbrev[=<n>] option

Output from ls-tree and ls-files -s are primarily for script consumption. diff-raw output which already has abbrev is also primarily for scripts, but we have an excuse there that human eyes can spot differences easier in abbreviated form and two values on the same row being different is the only information we are conveying in "git whatchanged" default output, and not abbreviating the object names makes pathnames pushed to far right of the display which will be chopped by "less -S".

So I am not quite sure if I should take this, and a subsequent one you would probably send for ls-files ;-).

Care to point out a use case I might have missed that this is useful? I've never done ls-tree to be read by _me_ (not by script) unless I am debugging ls-tree itself.

Although I doubt this adds much practical value, this might make things consistent, which by itself might be a reason to do this, though.