In blame view, add option to toggle commit id

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, git
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start at tig's blame view and the control that displays commit IDs. Trace how the current commit column is rendered, then determine how the proposed Normal, Off, Symbolic, and Short choices fit the existing controls. Done means the blame view can toggle among the requested commit-display modes.

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Description

component:blame

Sometimes it is just interesting who wrote a line and seeing more columns of the file is more interesting than seeing the commit id. Adding a toggle to the control the display of the commit would solve this. I suggest that the following options may be used for the commit:

  1. Normal (like now)
  2. Off
  3. Symbolic (show HEAD, HEAD^1, HEAD^3) etc
  4. Short(? - e.g. minimum of unique characters needed to be unique)
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