Ramsay Jones <ram...@ramsayjones.plus.com> writes: > As I said, the original version of the patch just removed the > --abbrev=7, but then I started to think about why you might have > used --abbrev in the first place (first in commit 9b88fcef7 and > again in commit bf505158d). Making sure to override the configuration > was the only thing I could come up with. So, I was hoping you could > remember why! :-P
Nope. As a maintainer support script, the only thing I cared about it is that there is no -gXXXX at the end for anything I release ;-) > (I assumed it was to force a measure of uniformity/reproducibility). You cannot force uniformity/reproducibility with fixed abbrev, unless you set abbreviation length to 40, so you are correct to add "a measure of" there ;-) The first choice (i.e. 4) may have had a justification to force absolute minimum, and the second one (i.e. 7) may have had a justifiation to make it clear that we are using the same setting as the default, so in post-1.7.10 era, I think it is fine for us to just say "we have been using the same as default, so let's not specify anything explicitly".
