diff --git a/how_to/Change_25.md b/how_to/Change_25.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..941593d --- /dev/null +++ b/how_to/Change_25.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +- cli: pass HEAD by default in argparse + +First, make "@" be an alias for HEAD. (Implemented in `get_oid`) + +Second, do a little refactoring in *cli.py*. Some commands accept an optional +OID argument and if the argument isn't provided it defaults to HEAD. For example +`git log` can get an OID to start logging from, but by default it logs all +commits before HEAD. + +Instead of having each command implement this logic, let's just make "@" (HEAD) +be the default value for those commands. The relevant commands at this stage +are `log` and `tag`. More will follow.