Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think of 3 alternatives to use this mode for the "refname" format (and > probably others): > > a) Use core.warnAmbiguousRefs to control strict mode. > This would change the current default behaviour, because this is true > by default. > > b) Introduce a new core config variable to control this, either for > for-each-ref alone ore globally. > > c) Introduce a "refname:short-strict" format to get the strict abbreviation. > > I'm currently slighty in favour for option b). Your earlier http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/96464 made a lot of sense to me. The request "refname:short" cannot be for use by scripts (well, scripts may pass it to for-each-ref but that has to be for final consumption by humans wanting to view the names in a format not overly long, as opposed to scripts using for-each-ref to extract unambiguous names to be used for further processing, in which case they would be using "refname" without ":short"), so I do not see "change the current default behaviour" is a bad thing at all. If anything, it is an improvement, isn't it? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html