Jeff King writes:
> I guess my point was that the poor name may have contributed to the need
> to explain it.
The comment was not about "it may not be obvious but this tries to
pad and align", but to say "the way this tries to pad and align is
based on an unsaid assumption that leads to this lim
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:19:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King writes:
>
> > ... Now that function _would_
> > want to be updated as a result of the other conversation (it would need
> > to do something sensible with "-1", like turning it into "7", or
> > whatever else is deemed rea
Jeff King writes:
> ... Now that function _would_
> want to be updated as a result of the other conversation (it would need
> to do something sensible with "-1", like turning it into "7", or
> whatever else is deemed reasonable outside of a repository).
>
> Anyway. I just wonder if you want to gi
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:54:53AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> This function is used to add "..." to displayed object names in
> "diff --raw --abbrev[=]" output. It bases its behaviour on an
> untold assumption that the abbreviation length requested by the
> caller is "reasonble", i.e. most of
This function is used to add "..." to displayed object names in
"diff --raw --abbrev[=]" output. It bases its behaviour on an
untold assumption that the abbreviation length requested by the
caller is "reasonble", i.e. most of the objects will abbreviate
within the requested length and the resultin
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