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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vcs_info git: For the branch name, try to find a symbolic name before falling back to a raw commit hex.
In-Reply-To: <20180818155719.23574-2-danielsh@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (Daniel
	Shahaf's message of "Sat, 18 Aug 2018 15:57:19 +0000")
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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 22:41:28 +0200
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Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Ask git-describe(1) and git-name-rev(1) to compute a gitrevisions(1)
> name in terms of a branch or tag that contains (= is a descendant of,
> is younger than) HEAD.
>
> In this repository, the output changes from "9567bfe..." to
> "master~1" or "remotes/origin/HEAD~1".
> ---
> WDYT?

I like it. Maybe use a style to make it possible to get the old
behavior back, if someone prefers it?

Regards, Frank