Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] pretty: make %H/%h/etc respect --abbrev[-commit]

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:33:01PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> > Here we make "git log --pretty=%H --abbrev-commit" synonymous with
> >> > "git log --pretty=%h", and make %h/abbreviated-%H respect the length
> >> > specified for --abbrev.
> >> 
> >> I think it is a good change to make %h follow --abbrev, but %H should stay
> >> the full length no matter what (otherwise why would anybody use %H not %h?).
> >
> > But I thought the point of %h was to be abbreviated? If it follows
> > --abbrev, then "git log --format=%h" would show the full sha1, no?
> 
> Sorry, but I meant that the point of %h was to be abbreviated and the
> point of %H was not to be abbreviated.  So no matter whaqt --abbrev-commit
> says on the command line, --format=%H should show the full commit object
> name.

Ah, I see. So the change you called "good" above was that %h should
respect --abbrev=10, but keep the same default?

I do think that's an improvement, but it discards what Will was trying
to accomplish (a placeholder that behaves different depending on whether
abbreviation has been requested). I guess we would need a new syntax for
that.

-Peff