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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
To: Seth House <seth@eseth.com>
Cc: Ioannis Koutras <ioannis.koutras@gmail.com>,  zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: vcs_info on a hg repository with a git subrepository; actionformats works ok, formats does not
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:34:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lig6a2kv.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4q09w52.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org> (Frank Terbeck's message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:28:41 +0200")

Frank Terbeck wrote:
[...]
>> 1) Alter the hg backend to work without the full 40-char hash.
>>
>> The ``hg id`` command will always return a unique hash. The only thing
>> the full hash is being used for in the hg backend is comparisons with
>> MQ patches and that can be changed to be a left-match instead. We can
>> document why the full hash isn't available and if users are expecting
>> 40-chars we can give an example of how to pad the value with spaces.
>> This changes existing behavior.
[...]
>> FWIW, my personal preference is the first option as I feel the 40-char
>> hash is rarely desired or useful in a shell prompt.

After some thought, I agree. Relying on debugging features to remain
stable is not a good idea. Seth: Are you willing to send a patch?

Regards, Frank


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-19  7:34 UTC|newest]

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2012-09-17 21:28                   ` Frank Terbeck
2012-09-19  7:34                     ` Frank Terbeck [this message]
2012-09-19 15:14                       ` Seth House

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