These allows users to write hash-agnostic scripts and configs to disable abbreviations. Using "-c core.abbrev=40" will be insufficient with SHA-256, and "-c core.abbrev=64" won't work with SHA-1 repos today. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> --- I kinda wanted to allow a value of "max", but I figured the existing boolean falsiness words might make more sense with `--no-abbrev' in for some commands... Naming is hard :x config.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/config.c b/config.c index 2bdff4457b..f2e09c72ca 100644 --- a/config.c +++ b/config.c @@ -1217,6 +1217,10 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) return config_error_nonbool(var); if (!strcasecmp(value, "auto")) default_abbrev = -1; + else if (!strcasecmp(value, "false") || + !strcasecmp(value, "no") || + !strcasecmp(value, "off")) + default_abbrev = the_hash_algo->hexsz; else { int abbrev = git_config_int(var, value); if (abbrev < minimum_abbrev || abbrev > the_hash_algo->hexsz)