From: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 19:56:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sequencer.c: abbreviate hashs placed in the middle of messages
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In-Reply-To: <xmqqtwvmlxlo.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> And shortening the output feels to me a more expedient thing to do
> because we do not have to analyse the ramification of possible
> information loss (your "It has value since...").  If we analyse the
> issue well, we might realize that there is little point in showing
> the commit object name in hexadecimal, be it in full or in shortened
> form.
>
> If the proposal were to parrot what the user typed on the command
> line, e.g. one of these (or their rephrased versions)
>
>         error: commit 'next' is a merge but no -m option was given.
>         error: no -m option was given to pick a merge 'next'.
>
> against the above example, then I would say that would be an
> improvement, but that is not what is being discussed, so...

Commits to be merged don't have to be branches.

OK. So let's stay with 40 character hash in the messages.