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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-01-11 02:24:26 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-01-11 02:24:26 +0300 |
| commit | 33cf69403c29880fb2b3de71be42fdc428dcca19 (patch) | |
| tree | 064bc9bcb2e1c9e8e1d23d5e79a08def5e3bcd80 /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | 87359ffcc8a583c537aabefac0a9e444690c21fa (diff) | |
| parent | 48d5014dd42cc4a4465162c9807eaa253715e105 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'jc/abbrev-autoscale-config'
Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
* jc/abbrev-autoscale-config:
config.abbrev: document the new default that auto-scales
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1abf078c4e..506431267e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -783,10 +783,11 @@ core.sparseCheckout:: linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information. core.abbrev:: - Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If unspecified, - many commands abbreviate to 7 hexdigits, which may not be enough - for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long - time. + Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If + unspecified or set to "auto", an appropriate value is + computed based on the approximate number of packed objects + in your repository, which hopefully is enough for + abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time. add.ignoreErrors:: add.ignore-errors (deprecated):: |