Re: [PATCH] sequencer.c: abbreviate hashs placed in the middle of messages

> 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.