Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 26.03.2010 20:32: > Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Currently, rev-list has a default of "0" for abbrev which means that >> switching on abbreviations with --abbrev-commit has no visible effect, >> even though the option is documented. > > Hmm, I actually think this was deliberate. rev-list is designed to be a > low level machinery for getting full object names, and in that context, > setting the default abbreviation length to "don't abbreviate" gave us some > safety, with additional safety of requiring a separate --abbrev-commit > option to affect the main "show the commit object names" codepath (the > latter of which would not likely to change). The caller sets explicitly > how long an output it wants (see git-rebase--interactive for an example). My thinking was that unless --abbrev-commit is specified, nothing is abbreviated, so that one has reproducible (plumbing) behaviour. I learned that --abbrev= implies --abbrev-commit, but again, this means explicitly requiring non-plumbing behavior. > > Having said that, I don't think this would break existing scripts, so > let's queue it and see what happens. OK! Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html