Hey Jeff, I'll take a look at improving the text and the other commands. Thanks for the response. I'll get back to you soonish. André 2017-05-18 12:59 GMT-03:00 Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:03:00AM -0300, André Werlang wrote: > >> Git 2.11 introduced a computation to guess the default length >> for commit short hashes. The documentation isn't updated. > > Thanks for the patch. I think this is going in the right direction, but > I have a few minor comments. > >> From 2b1c229153a89c7608e64b87d2f933704c18b7ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Werlang?= <beppe85@xxxxxxxxx> >> 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 > > These headers are redundant with what's in your email headers and can be > dropped. > >> 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. > > This is definitely an improvement, though I wonder if we should mention > that we default to core.abbrev (which in turn defaults to the "auto" > behavior). > > It looks like there are a few other mentions of "7" with respect to > "--abbrev": git-branch.txt, git-describe.txt, git-blame.txt. Those > should probably get the same treatment. > > There are a few other "--abbrev" options (e.g., ls-files and ls-tree) > that don't mention "7". But while we're fixing the others, it may be > worth giving them all consistent text. > > -Peff -- André Werlang