>From 2b1c229153a89c7608e64b87d2f933704c18b7ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Werlang?= <bepp...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 10:50:11 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] doc: explain default option for rev-parse --short MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Git 2.11 introduced a computation to guess the default length for commit short hashes. The documentation isn't updated. Signed-off-by: André Werlang <bepp...@gmail.com> --- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 7241e96..b49f053 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -139,8 +139,10 @@ can be used. --short:: --short=number:: Instead of outputting the full SHA-1 values of object names try to - abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified - 7 is used. The minimum length is 4. + abbreviate them to a shorter unique name. When no length is specified, + it is guessed from the number of objects in the repository. In any case, + the actual length will be enough to identify the object unambiguously + in the current state of the repository. The minimum length is 4. --symbolic:: Usually the object names are output in SHA-1 form (with
