diff: index-line: respect --abbrev in object's name

A handful of Git's commands respect `--abbrev' for customizing length
of abbreviation of object names.

For diff-family, Git supports 2 different options for 2 different
purposes, `--full-index' for showing diff-patch object's name in full,
and `--abbrev' to customize the length of object names in diff-raw and
diff-tree header lines, without any options to customise the length of
object names in diff-patch format. When working with diff-patch format,
we only have two options, either full index, or default abbrev length.

Although, that behaviour is documented, it doesn't stop users from
trying to use `--abbrev' with the hope of customising diff-patch's
objects' name's abbreviation.

Let's allow the blob object names shown on the "index" line to be
abbreviated to arbitrary length given via the "--abbrev" option.

To preserve backward compatibility with old script that specify both
`--full-index' and `--abbrev', always show full object id
if `--full-index' is specified.

Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-08-21 18:51:47 +07:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent fc7e73d7ef
commit 3046c7f69a
6 changed files with 99 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -441,10 +441,11 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
--abbrev[=<n>]::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
name in diff-raw format output and diff-tree header
lines, show only a partial prefix. This is
independent of the `--full-index` option above, which controls
the diff-patch output format. Non default number of
digits can be specified with `--abbrev=<n>`.
lines, show only a partial prefix.
In diff-patch output format, `--full-index` takes higher
precedence, i.e. if `--full-index` is specified, full blob
names will be shown regardless of `--abbrev`.
Non default number of digits can be specified with `--abbrev=<n>`.
-B[<n>][/<m>]::
--break-rewrites[=[<n>][/<m>]]::