Re: [PATCH] bisect: print abbrev sha1 for first bad commit

> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'd argue for simply never showing the diff (dropping the "opt.diff = 1"
>>>> line from bisect.c:show_diff_tree), but that is mostly my personal
>>>> opinion.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I think that is sensible. It may even be OK to just give a
>>> "log --oneline".
>>
>> Or maybe we could let the user configure the diff options or even the
>> command used when the first bad commit is found?
>
> That is a separate discussion.  I do not mind but I doubt many
> people would use it (I was tempted to say "doubt anybody would", but
> then was reminded how many people use Git, and toned it down), as
> long as we have a good default.  And I thought that this discussion
> was about coming up with a good-enough default.
>
> To be bluntly honest, I think the current one is sufficient as a
> good-enough default.  The first thing I would do after seeing that
> message is to either "git checkout <commit-object-name>" or "git
> show <commit-object-name>", and the current full 40-hex output gives
> me an easier mouse-double-click target than the proposed abbreviated
> one, so in that sense the original proposal may even be a usability
> regression.

> It is tempting to say that the output can be eliminated by always
> checking out the first-bad-commit (i.e. only when the last answer
> that led to the first-bad decision was "good", do a "git checkout"
> of that bad commit), but in a project where a branch switching is
> not instantaneous, that might be problematic (unless the first step
> the user would have done is to check it out anyway, of course).