2013/6/27 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: >> diff --git a/quote.c b/quote.c >> index 64ff3..ebb8 100644 > > You seem to be using unusually short abbrev length. > > Please don't, at least in format-patch output. > > "ebb8" may be unique within your repository, but may not be unique > in repositories of other people who attempt to apply your patches. > > Offtopic. Fixing this, without forcing you to use the default > abbrev length everywhere, _might_ require a bit of changes to the > configuration mechanism, or "git format-patch", or both. I've also > seen in some other thread that --numstat was used in addition to the > usual --stat, which should not be added to format-patch output only > because the user configured it for other "diff/log" uses, which may > also need to be fixed in the same way. Thank you for your notice. I find that I have a setting: core.abbrev=4, which overrides the default. Maybe I set it two years ago, when I wrote my book on Git in Chinese. -- Jiang Xin -- 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