[PATCH] Documentation/gittutorial.txt: minimum 4 chars to match SHA1s

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Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/gittutorial.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
index 4581a5a..42c2c91 100644
--- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt
@@ -481,7 +481,8 @@ $ git show c82a22c39cbc32576f64f5c6b3f24b99ea8149c7
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 But there are other ways to refer to commits.  You can use any initial
-part of the name that is long enough to uniquely identify the commit:
+part of the name that is long enough to uniquely identify the commit
+(minimum is four characters):
 
 -------------------------------------
 $ git show c82a22c39c	# the first few characters of the name are
-- 
1.6.0.6
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