[Trac-tickets] [The Trac Project] #3533: Display shortened revision numbers

[The Trac Project]

#3533: Display shortened revision numbers
-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
 Reporter:  thomas.moschny at gmx.de  |       Owner:  cmlenz
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal                 |   Milestone:  0.11  
Component:  version control        |     Version:  devel 
 Severity:  normal                 |    Keywords:        
-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
 Version control systems other than subversion might have substantial
 longer revision identifiers (e.g. Mercurial, Monotone). These revision ids
 should not always be displayed to the user in their entirety.

 To solve this, a method should be added to the vc-api that lets the vc-
 backend convert a "full" revision id into a "displayed" revision number.

 An additional parameter could choose the style ("short", "mid-size",
 "full", whatever...), depending on the context where the revision id is to
 be displayed.

 (The alternate approach, to modify the backend so that it always hands
 shortened revision ids to trac, seems very hackish to me.)

-- 
Ticket URL: <http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/3533>
The Trac Project <http://trac.edgewall.com/>