Re: [PATCH 10/10] get_short_sha1: list ambiguous objects on error

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 30, 2016, 05:51 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xr4ZNCCJkS0=yR-FNu+MrL60YX-+Wsz9L_5LCNhnY_d=A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbmz6hbdk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>   - "cat-file --batch-check" can show you the sha1 and type, but it
>>     won't abbreviate sha1s, and it won't show you commit/tag information
>>
>>   - "log --stdin --no-walk" will format the commit however you like, but
>>     skips the trees and blobs entirely, and the tag can only be seen via
>>     "%d"
>>
>>   - "for-each-ref" has flexible formatting, too, but wants to format
>>     refs, not objects (and doesn't read from stdin).
>
>     - "name-rev" is used to give "describe --contains", and can read
>       from its standard input, but has no format customization.
>       Another downside of it is that it only wants to see
>       committishes.
>

Some tool which reads standard input and can be formatted would be nice. Extending name-rev with the same format options as for-each-ref would be nice.

Thanks, Jake