On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 10:06:40AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:08:02 +1100 Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Might be worth adding this to the boiler plate code: > > > > This can be fixed by adding the following to your ~/.gitconfig file: > > > > [core] > > abbrev = 12 > > Actually, since git v2.11 (released Nov 29, 2016), abbrev = auto (which > is the default) means that the default scales with the size of the > repository. For Linus' tree, that currently produces 12 digit commit > SHA1 abbreviations, but will probably soon become 13. So the best > currently, is to *not* set core.abbrev (or set it to something above 12 > (for future robustness). > > See > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181220000112.24891-1-avarab@xxxxxxxxx/ .... and in replying to correct me demonstrates the exact point I was making - that documenting what configuration should be used to avoid the warning acheives far more than just reporting an error. i.e. all those people who /don't follow git development/ and have working configs that pre-date the "auto mode" or it being made the default now know the correct way to configure their repository. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
