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From: Laszlo Ersek <laszlo.ersek@posteo.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-blame vs. abbrev
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:43:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d4b0156-4de9-4f67-b864-cf6314a1e772@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqcxx7raan.fsf@gitster.g>

On 6/30/26 23:24, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Laszlo Ersek <laszlo.ersek@posteo.net> writes:
> 
>>> ... the same object, I suspect you wouldn't even notice that the
>>> hexadecimal digits you see on the screen have one digit longer than
>>> usual ;-).
>>
>> That's it precisely! :) I do *not* notice that the hash from git-blame
>> has one more hexadecimal character than the central abbrev setting; so I
>> just go ahead and blindly cut n' paste it, using the mouse, from the
>> terminal, to the editor search box ...
> 
> Which means that there does not need any configuration variable to
> trigger the new behaviour to protect your workflow from breaking, I
> think, and instead we can just go ahead with the "-b then no extra
> column for '^'" change, right? ;-)

Yes, certainly!

Thank you!
Laszlo

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-01  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-30 11:15 git-blame vs. abbrev Laszlo Ersek
2026-06-30 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-06-30 20:32   ` Laszlo Ersek
2026-06-30 21:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-07-01  8:43       ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2026-06-30 21:38   ` René Scharfe
2026-07-01  8:45     ` Laszlo Ersek
2026-07-06  8:38 ` [PATCH] blame: reserve mark column only if necessary René Scharfe
2026-07-06 20:33   ` Junio C Hamano

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