Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 'git log --abbrev-commit' adds an ellipsis to all commit names that > were abbreviated. This is annoying if you want to cut&paste the sha1 > from the terminal, since selecting by word will pick up '...' too. > (And this cannot be fixed by making '.' a non-word character; in other > instances, such as the '123457..abcdef0' from git-fetch, it's part of > the expression.) I actually think that it is a bug that --abbrev-commit uses ellipses. It has been there since "diff --abbrev" was first introduced by commit 47dd0d5 (diff: --abbrev option, 2005-12-13). It did make sense to align columns in abbreviated raw diff output with ellipses, but it did not make much sense to do that for commit object names. Some scripts might be relying on the presense of ellipses but depending on the object distribution, the length of the ellipses can range from zero to three; if they are expecting to always see three dots, such scripts are already broken. For this reason, I do not think it is necessarily a bad idea to make this change even unconditionally to both plumbing and Porcelain. -- 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
