On 11/4/20 5:01 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Early text written in 2006 explains the "--abbrev=<n>" option to > "show only a partial prefix", without saying that the length of the > partial prefix is not necessarily the number given to the option to > ensure that the output names the object uniquely. > > Update documentation for the diff family of commands, "blame", > "branch --verbose", "ls-files" and "ls-tree" to stress that the > short prefix must uniquely refer to an object, and <n> is merely > the mininum number of hexdigits used in the prefix. > > Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > > * Thanks for your suggestion. I decided to use "the shortest > prefix that is at least <n> hexdigits long". I like this version. Thanks! -Stolee
