Re: Any objectsions to enhancing git-log to show tags/branch heads?

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Theodore Tso wrote:

> The one thing that's a bit unfortunate is that with the commit ID
> taking up 40 characters, very often there's not enough space on the
> screen to display all of the tags and references (and with the default
> less options being hardcoded as "-FRSX", the ones that go beyond the
> width of the screen get lost.  
> 
> So I tried to use --abbrev, and it didn't shrink the size of the id,
> like I thought it would.  It didn't object to the option, but
> apparently it ignored it.  Funny, I thought it worked before, but it
> wasn't before I applied the patch, so it wasn't your patches that were
> at fault.

You have to use --abbrev-commit (--abbrev is opassed to log machinery, and
covers object ids), which is undocumented option (mentioned only in passing
in git-reflog(1)).
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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