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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-02-01 00:32:06 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-02-01 00:32:06 +0300 |
| commit | 46ab22261661a8b4d2e86badc55d26017739dc31 (patch) | |
| tree | e9352ba61eff34622265b97c350b29b6cc3eddd4 /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | 867ce0416c74ac5d403765ea94673ab8969b1a81 (diff) | |
| parent | 48d5014dd42cc4a4465162c9807eaa253715e105 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'jc/abbrev-autoscale-config' into maint
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 aba7568bcd..1fee83ca42 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):: |