Re: [PATCH v2] rev-list: teach --oid-only to enable piping

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But I wonder if things would be simpler if we did not touch the commit
> code path at all. I.e., if this were simply "--no-object-names", and it
> touched only show_object().

Yeah, that sounds more tempting.  And the refined code structure you
suggested ...

>> @@ -255,6 +262,10 @@ static void show_object(struct object *obj, const char *name, void *cb_data)
>>  	display_progress(progress, ++progress_counter);
>>  	if (info->flags & REV_LIST_QUIET)
>>  		return;
>> +	if (arg_oid_only) {
>> +		printf("%s\n", oid_to_hex(&obj->oid));
>> +		return;
>> +	}
>>  	show_object_with_name(stdout, obj, name);
>>  }
>>  
>
> A minor style point, but I think this might be easier to follow without
> the early return, since we are really choosing to do A or B. Writing:
>
>   if (arg_oid_only)
> 	printf(...);
>   else
> 	show_object_with_name(...);
>
> shows that more clearly, I think.

... is a good way to clearly show that intention, I would think.