Re: [PATCH 0/5] fetch & co: misc output cleanup

From: Santi <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 29, 2006, 20:48 UTC
Message-ID: <8aa486160609291348m411932aqfd1049c96ed624df@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <451D6BDB.50900@gmail.com>

2006/9/29, A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>:

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> Santi Béjar wrote:
> > this patchset includes:
> >
> >       fetch: Reset remote refs list each time fetch_main is called
> >       fetch & co: Use "hash1..hash2" instead of "from hash1 to hash2"
> >       fetch & co: Use short sha1 in the output
> >       fetch: Add output for the not fast forward case
> >       fetch: Clean output
>
> Please do not make short ID output the default. That is, unless you can
> somehow guarantee that the short ID reported today will _always_ be
> unambiguous even with future additions to the repository.
>

There is not such guarantee. But the fetch output is to be use immediately in git-log, etc. If you want these "guarantees" you must know that you have to keep the long version.

By the way, is there a way to show all the commits,tags,... that abbreviate to a short hash? This way instead of just saying "bad revision" we could show the list of possible revisions.

Also, git-log & co also output abbreviated hashes by default. So why not for git-fetch?

Santi