Hi,
recently my most recent git tag output started to include the entire output of git describe with commit distance and current commit hash. I am not sure if this was caused by the update in powerline-gitstatus or a change in git itself.
In any case, I would like to change it, so it only shows the tag name. I would like to make this configurable, because not everyone might want to see it like I do.
I would like to create a pull request for this, but I can't decide on how to expose this functionality in the powerline config. There are several ways I could think of:
simply create another option
pros:
backwards compatible
easy to implement
cons:
it is decoupled from the other option and might be confusing, when it does not do anything on it's own
add an optional suffix to the option values
pros:
backwards compatible
cons:
it's a hack
it is not really that clear to the user
replace the option with with another, that gets a JSON object with two values
pros:
the most clear to the user
cons:
not really backwards compatible, unless we add extra code to handle it
Independent from the way to add the option, I was also pondering whether one would just simply expose the --abbrev option argument to the user as a number, or to just expose a boolean, to pass the flag with 0 or not.
I would be happy for some advice and input, thank you in advance.
Hi, recently my most recent git tag output started to include the entire output of
git describewith commit distance and current commit hash. I am not sure if this was caused by the update in powerline-gitstatus or a change in git itself.In any case, I would like to change it, so it only shows the tag name. I would like to make this configurable, because not everyone might want to see it like I do. I would like to create a pull request for this, but I can't decide on how to expose this functionality in the powerline config. There are several ways I could think of:
Independent from the way to add the option, I was also pondering whether one would just simply expose the
--abbrevoption argument to the user as a number, or to just expose a boolean, to pass the flag with 0 or not.I would be happy for some advice and input, thank you in advance.