Re: Any objectsions to enhancing git-log to show tags/branch heads?

Theodore Tso wrote:

The one thing that's a bit unfortunate is that with the commit ID
taking up 40 characters, very often there's not enough space on the
screen to display all of the tags and references (and with the default
less options being hardcoded as "-FRSX", the ones that go beyond the
width of the screen get lost.  

So I tried to use --abbrev, and it didn't shrink the size of the id,
like I thought it would.  It didn't object to the option, but
apparently it ignored it.  Funny, I thought it worked before, but it
wasn't before I applied the patch, so it wasn't your patches that were
at fault.

You have to use --abbrev-commit (--abbrev is opassed to log machinery, and
covers object ids), which is undocumented option (mentioned only in passing
in git-reflog(1)).
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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