Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 07:17:28PM CEST, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes: >> >> >> > Would it even be necessary to use any SHA-1 name in these cases, >> >> > I wonder. Would it make the page less useful if we replace all >> >> > of the above _commit_ with a fixed string, say, "parent"? >> > >> > I really disagree here - what's the point of not using SHA-1? The extra >> > string carries zero information in comparison with the previous state >> > and I just can't see how it *improves* stuff. If you're walking in a >> > maze and making marks on walls, it's still more useful if you have >> > corridors named by "A", "B", "C", "D" on junctions if you sometimes want >> > to walk back to the marked corridors. >> >> I think people would recognize A B C D as names but not 40- or >> 8- hexadecimal letters. > > 40-digit hex numbers is insane, I agree. But at least I personally tend > to recognize 8-digit hex numbers when dancing around them intensively > for a few minutes. Besides, it can be just "now I took the 8c5 way", > which is much easier to train your neurons too than "now I took the > fourth, uh, or was it the fifth parent? one, two, three, four, fifth... > hmm, what's in the statusbar?". > > My point is that this does not improve the situation, and some people > (me) think it makes it worse, so what's the point of the change? > >> I do not care much either way, actually, but I think it might >> make more sense to use abbreviated object names. On the other >> hand it may be Ok to have full 40 letters depending on the >> layout (e.g. the set of merge parents are shown on a single line >> in which case it would not fit, etc.). > > Yes, I'm all for abbreviated names, but I'm against just writing > "parent" everywhere. Fully agreed. Please make it so, if you so are inclined, perhaps between you and Jakub? - 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