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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-11-02 04:34:07 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-12-23 00:17:15 +0300 |
| commit | 48d5014dd42cc4a4465162c9807eaa253715e105 (patch) | |
| tree | 5b9c28a6b72920ba051a32e69e0f49fd7f983bec /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | be5a750939c212bc0781ffa04fabcfd2b2bd744e (diff) | |
config.abbrev: document the new default that auto-scales
We somehow forgot to update the "default is 7" in the
documentation. Also give a way to explicitly ask the auto-scaling
by setting config.abbrev to "auto".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 a0ab66aae7..b02f8a4025 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):: |