Re: [PATCH 3/3] git abbref-ref: new porcelain for abbreviate_ref()

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

Bert Wesarg [off-list ref] wrote:

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This gives direct access to the abbreviate_ref() function. The operation
mode defaults to the core.warnambiguousrefs value, like the refname:short
format, but can be explicitly changed with the --{,no}-strict option.

The bash completion script utilizes this new command.

And it slows down too, doesn't it?  Now we are doing a fork per
branch during completion.  Yikes.  Didn't you just post a series
about making completion faster?
 

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Junio, if this is not a porcelain, tell me.

IMHO its plumbing.  Porcelain is used by a human.  Plumbing is the
bits needed to make human interfaces.

Shawn is right.

I wouldn't be taking this patch to add a new command, but I suspect that
this could be an option to rev-parse that is similar to --symbolic.

Teach SHOW_SYMBOLIC_SHORTEST to builtin-rev-parse.c::show_rev(), teach the
parser cmd_rev_parse() a new option --symbolic-abbrev and you are done,
right?

By the way, I found it amusing to see Cc: lines _after_ three dashes to
control send-email --- nice trick I didn't think of ;-)