checkout: describe_detached_head: remove ellipsis after committish

We do not want an ellipsis displayed following an (abbreviated) SHA-1
value.

The days when this was necessary to indicate the truncation to
lower-level Git commands and/or the user are bygone.

However, to ease the transition, the ellipsis will still be printed if
the user sets the environment variable GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS to "yes".

Correct documentation with respect to what describe_detached_head prints
when GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS is not set as indicated above.

Add tests for the old and new behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/user-manual.txt

@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
 
   git checkout -b new_branch_name
 
-HEAD is now at 427abfa... Linux v2.6.17
+HEAD is now at 427abfa Linux v2.6.17
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 The HEAD then refers to the SHA-1 of the commit instead of to a branch,

builtin/checkout.c

@@ -400,10 +400,16 @@ static void show_local_changes(struct object *head,
 static void describe_detached_head(const char *msg, struct commit *commit)
 {
 	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+
 	if (!parse_commit(commit))
 		pp_commit_easy(CMIT_FMT_ONELINE, commit, &sb);
-	fprintf(stderr, "%s %s... %s\n", msg,
+	if (print_sha1_ellipsis()) {
-		find_unique_abbrev(commit->object.oid.hash, DEFAULT_ABBREV), sb.buf);
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s %s... %s\n", msg,
+			find_unique_abbrev(commit->object.oid.hash, DEFAULT_ABBREV), sb.buf);
+	} else {
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s %s %s\n", msg,
+			find_unique_abbrev(commit->object.oid.hash, DEFAULT_ABBREV), sb.buf);
+	}
 	strbuf_release(&sb);
 }
 

t/t2020-checkout-detach.sh

@@ -186,4 +186,127 @@ test_expect_success 'no advice given for explicit detached head state' '
 	test_cmp expect.no-advice actual
 '
 
+# Detached HEAD tests for GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS (new format)
+test_expect_success 'describe_detached_head prints no SHA-1 ellipsis when not asked to' "
+
+	# The first detach operation is more chatty than the following ones.
+	cat >1st_detach <<-'EOF' &&
+	Note: checking out 'HEAD^'.
+
+	You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
+	changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
+	state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.
+
+	If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
+	do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
+
+	  git checkout -b <new-branch-name>
+
+	HEAD is now at 7c7cd714e262 three
+	EOF
+
+	# The remaining ones just show info about previous and current HEADs.
+	cat >2nd_detach <<-'EOF' &&
+	Previous HEAD position was 7c7cd714e262 three
+	HEAD is now at 139b20d8e6c5 two
+	EOF
+
+	cat >3rd_detach <<-'EOF' &&
+	Previous HEAD position was 139b20d8e6c5 two
+	HEAD is now at d79ce1670bdc one
+	EOF
+
+	reset &&
+	check_not_detached &&
+
+	# Various ways of *not* asking for ellipses
+
+	sane_unset GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS &&
+	git -c 'core.abbrev=12' checkout HEAD^ >actual 2>&1 &&
+	check_detached &&
+	test_i18ncmp 1st_detach actual &&
+
+	GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS="no" git -c 'core.abbrev=12' checkout HEAD^ >actual 2>&1 &&
+	check_detached &&
+	test_i18ncmp 2nd_detach actual &&
+
+	GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS= git -c 'core.abbrev=12' checkout HEAD^ >actual 2>&1 &&
+	check_detached &&
+	test_i18ncmp 3rd_detach actual &&
+
+	sane_unset GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS &&
+
+	# We only have four commits, but we can re-use them
+	reset &&
+	check_not_detached &&
+
+	# Make no mention of the env var at all
+	git -c 'core.abbrev=12' checkout HEAD^ >actual 2>&1 &&
+	check_detached &&
+	test_i18ncmp 1st_detach actual &&
+
+	GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS='nope' &&
+	git -c 'core.abbrev=12' checkout HEAD^ >actual 2>&1 &&
+	check_detached &&
+	test_i18ncmp 2nd_detach actual &&
+
+	GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS=nein &&
+	git -c 'core.abbrev=12' checkout HEAD^ >actual 2>&1 &&
+	check_detached &&
+	test_i18ncmp 3rd_detach actual &&
+
+	true
+"
+
+# Detached HEAD tests for GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS (old format)
+test_expect_success 'describe_detached_head does print SHA-1 ellipsis when asked to' "
+
+	# The first detach operation is more chatty than the following ones.
+	cat >1st_detach <<-'EOF' &&
+	Note: checking out 'HEAD^'.
+
+	You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
+	changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
+	state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.
+
+	If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
+	do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
+
+	  git checkout -b <new-branch-name>
+
+	HEAD is now at 7c7cd714e262... three
+	EOF
+
+	# The remaining ones just show info about previous and current HEADs.
+	cat >2nd_detach <<-'EOF' &&
+	Previous HEAD position was 7c7cd714e262... three
+	HEAD is now at 139b20d8e6c5... two
+	EOF
+
+	cat >3rd_detach <<-'EOF' &&
+	Previous HEAD position was 139b20d8e6c5... two
+	HEAD is now at d79ce1670bdc... one
+	EOF
+
+	reset &&
+	check_not_detached &&
+
+	# Various ways of asking for ellipses...
+	# The user can just use any kind of quoting (including none).
+
+	GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS="yes" git -c 'core.abbrev=12' checkout HEAD^ >actual 2>&1 &&
+	check_detached &&
+	test_i18ncmp 1st_detach actual &&
+
+	GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS='yes' git -c 'core.abbrev=12' checkout HEAD^ >actual 2>&1 &&
+	check_detached &&
+	test_i18ncmp 2nd_detach actual &&
+
+	GIT_PRINT_SHA1_ELLIPSIS=yes git -c 'core.abbrev=12' checkout HEAD^ >actual 2>&1 &&
+	check_detached &&
+	test_i18ncmp 3rd_detach actual &&
+
+	true
+"
+
 test_done