Re: [PATCH&RFC] get_short_ref(): add strict mode

Bert Wesarg [off-list ref] writes:

I think of 3 alternatives to use this mode for the "refname" format (and
probably others):

  a) Use core.warnAmbiguousRefs to control strict mode.
     This would change the current default behaviour, because this is true
     by default.

  b) Introduce a new core config variable to control this, either for
     for-each-ref alone ore globally.

  c) Introduce a "refname:short-strict" format to get the strict abbreviation.

I'm currently slighty in favour for option b).

Your earlier http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/96464
made a lot of sense to me.  The request "refname:short" cannot be for use
by scripts (well, scripts may pass it to for-each-ref but that has to be
for final consumption by humans wanting to view the names in a format not
overly long, as opposed to scripts using for-each-ref to extract
unambiguous names to be used for further processing, in which case they
would be using "refname" without ":short"), so I do not see "change the
current default behaviour" is a bad thing at all.  If anything, it is an
improvement, isn't it?