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From: Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>,
	Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] checkout, commit: remove confusing assignments to rev.abbrev
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:18:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280261936.4462.6.camel@walleee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100727183706.GD5578@burratino>

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:37 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
...
> v1.7.1.1~17^2~3 (2010-05-03) taught the log --format=%h machinery
> to respect --abbrev instead of always abbreviating ...
...

I've been seeing this phrasing throughout this discussion, and at first
I thought it was merely a poor choice of words, but now I feel I must
ensure it's clear:
the purpose of the patch was to respect --abbrev instead of always
abbreviating to a minimum of 7 characters. /Not/ to respect abbrev
"instead of always abbreviating". Perhaps armed with that phrasing, a
more general solution, such as equating "0" with "DEFAULT_ABBREV" rather
than "no abbrev", could be applied?

-- 
-- Will

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-27 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-25  9:08 Possible bug with `export-subst' attribute Eli Barzilay
2010-07-25 13:09 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2010-07-25 22:15   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-25 22:41     ` Eli Barzilay
2010-07-26  6:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-26 19:04       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-27 17:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-27 18:29           ` [PATCH 0/3] archive: abbreviate substituted commit ids again Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-27 18:32             ` [PATCH 1/3] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-27 18:37             ` [PATCH 2/3] checkout, commit: remove confusing assignments to rev.abbrev Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-27 20:18               ` Will Palmer [this message]
2010-07-27 21:09                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-28 10:01                   ` Will Palmer
2010-07-28 17:23                     ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-27 18:44             ` [PATCH 3/3] examples/commit: use --abbrev for commit summary Jonathan Nieder

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