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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-11-11 13:18:38 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-11-11 13:18:38 -0800 |
| commit | ee13bebbd50f69ac593f3e87a0958045f38edf6d (patch) | |
| tree | d6d503ce21241381463165ab0fa314562063647b /Documentation/git-branch.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'cw/ci-ghwf-check-ws-errors' (diff) | |
| parent | doc: clarify that --abbrev=<n> is about the minimum length (diff) | |
| download | tgif-ee13bebbd50f69ac593f3e87a0958045f38edf6d.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/abbrev-doc'
The documentation on the "--abbrev=<n>" option did not say the
output may be longer than "<n>" hexdigits, which has been
clarified.
* jc/abbrev-doc:
doc: clarify that --abbrev=<n> is about the minimum length
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-branch.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-branch.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index ace4ad3da8..adaa1782a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git branch' [--color[=<when>] | --no-color] [--show-current] - [-v [--abbrev=<length> | --no-abbrev]] + [-v [--abbrev=<n> | --no-abbrev]] [--column[=<options>] | --no-column] [--sort=<key>] [--merged [<commit>]] [--no-merged [<commit>]] [--contains [<commit>]] [--no-contains [<commit>]] @@ -194,8 +194,10 @@ This option is only applicable in non-verbose mode. Be more quiet when creating or deleting a branch, suppressing non-error messages. ---abbrev=<length>:: - Alter the sha1's minimum display length in the output listing. +--abbrev=<n>:: + In the verbose listing that show the commit object name, + show the shortest prefix that is at least '<n>' hexdigits + long that uniquely refers the object. The default value is 7 and can be overridden by the `core.abbrev` config option. |