Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Am 29.09.2016 um 01:30 schrieb Junio C Hamano: >> As Peff said, responding in a thread started by Linus's suggestion >> to raise the default abbreviation to 12 hexdigits: > > This is waayy too large for a new default. The vast majority of > repositories is smallish. For those, the long sequences of hex digits > are an uglification that is almost unbearable. > > I know that kernel developers are important, but their importance has > long been outnumbered by the anonymous and silent masses of users. > > Personally, I use 8 digits just because it is a "rounder" number than > 7, but in all of my repositories 7 would still work just as well. Yes, "git log --oneline" looks somewhat different and strange for me, too ;-) I am sure I'll get used to it if I keep using it, but I suspect that I'd be irritated as I find myself typing 'q' more and more often to "less -S" that is automatically invoked when I do "git log --oneline master.." to see what commits are on my current topic branch.