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authorLibravatar Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>2020-09-01 07:43:55 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-12-23 13:40:09 -0800
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core.abbrev=no disables abbreviations
This allows users to write hash-agnostic scripts and configs by disabling abbreviations. Using "-c core.abbrev=40" will be insufficient with SHA-256, and "-c core.abbrev=64" won't work with SHA-1 repos today. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> [jc: tweaked implementation, added doc and a test] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt
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@@ -625,4 +625,6 @@ core.abbrev::
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.
+ If set to "no", no abbreviation is made and the object names
+ are shown in their full length.
The minimum length is 4.