From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: jyotish kumar <jyotishkumar725015@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] name-rev: update hash descriptions
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:58:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbj9iqp27.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <armZ28MWl9dTHDz6@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:34:03 +0000")
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
>> --name-only::
>> - Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only
>> + Instead of printing both the object ID and the name, print only
>> the name. If given with --tags the usual tag prefix of
>> "tags/" is also omitted from the name, matching the output
>> of `git-describe` more closely.
>
> This looks much better. I didn't see any other instances of "SHA-1" in
> the documentation or "40", so this looks complete.
Great to know that somebody already did the grep for us so I do not
have to ;-)
"object ID" is the best one among a few synonyms to be used in the
description of "--name-only", as the "name" is about the textual
"name" name-rev mapped, and not about the "object identifier" that
was used as the input to the program.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-27 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-27 9:54 [DOC] name-rev: --annotate-stdin docs still describe SHA-1 jyotish kumar
2026-09-27 13:50 ` brian m. carlson
2026-09-27 19:46 ` [PATCH] name-rev: update hash descriptions jyotish kumar
2026-09-27 22:34 ` brian m. carlson
2026-09-27 22:58 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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