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From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] cherry: support --abbrev option
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:39:10 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> Switch to parse-options API while we're at it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> I sometimes find it useful to look at the commit-subject together with
>> the SHA-1s. Using --abbrev increases the chance that the lines fits on
>> an 80 character wide terminal, making the output easier to read.
>
> Even though "cherry" historically was meant to be a low-level helper for
> Porcelain scripts, I've seen people use it as the top-level UI, and I
> think what the patch tries to do makes sense.
>

I find it very useful. In fact, even the documentation seems to
suggest to use it to find out if a patch is merged upstream, which
doesn't sound very scriptish to me. So I think it has somehow exceeded
it's original goal :)

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund