Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think it should be an easy patch to add a post-processing phase > after all lines are blamed to automatically compute an appropriate > value of abbreviation to ensure the uniqueness, but the current > blame output does not bother to do so. Something like this, perhaps, but I didn't test the patch beyond "it compiles". builtin/blame.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c index 24d3dd5..960c58d 100644 --- a/builtin/blame.c +++ b/builtin/blame.c @@ -1837,6 +1837,16 @@ static int read_ancestry(const char *graft_file) return 0; } +static int update_auto_abbrev(int auto_abbrev, struct origin *suspect) +{ + const char *uniq = find_unique_abbrev(suspect->commit->object.sha1, + auto_abbrev); + int len = strlen(uniq); + if (auto_abbrev < len) + return len; + return auto_abbrev; +} + /* * How many columns do we need to show line numbers, authors, * and filenames? @@ -1847,12 +1857,16 @@ static void find_alignment(struct scoreboard *sb, int *option) int longest_dst_lines = 0; unsigned largest_score = 0; struct blame_entry *e; + int compute_auto_abbrev = (abbrev < 0); + int auto_abbrev = default_abbrev; for (e = sb->ent; e; e = e->next) { struct origin *suspect = e->suspect; struct commit_info ci; int num; + if (compute_auto_abbrev) + auto_abbrev = update_auto_abbrev(auto_abbrev, suspect); if (strcmp(suspect->path, sb->path)) *option |= OUTPUT_SHOW_NAME; num = strlen(suspect->path); @@ -1880,6 +1894,10 @@ static void find_alignment(struct scoreboard *sb, int *option) max_orig_digits = decimal_width(longest_src_lines); max_digits = decimal_width(longest_dst_lines); max_score_digits = decimal_width(largest_score); + + if (compute_auto_abbrev) + /* one more abbrev length is needed for the boundary commit */ + abbrev = auto_abbrev + 1; } /* @@ -2353,10 +2371,9 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) parse_done: argc = parse_options_end(&ctx); - if (abbrev == -1) - abbrev = default_abbrev; - /* one more abbrev length is needed for the boundary commit */ - abbrev++; + if (0 < abbrev) + /* one more abbrev length is needed for the boundary commit */ + abbrev++; if (revs_file && read_ancestry(revs_file)) die_errno("reading graft file '%s' failed", revs_file); -- 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