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| author |  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-28 11:28:04 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-03-11 14:42:54 -0800 |
| commit | dce96489162b05ae3463741f7f0365ff56f0de36 (patch) | |
| tree | b342bc64b96a6553e58c0a29a1225c0d7832e9b4 /Documentation | |
| parent | Git 1.7.4 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-dce96489162b05ae3463741f7f0365ff56f0de36.tar.xz | |
Make the default abbrev length configurable
The default of 7 comes from fairly early in git development, when
seven hex digits was a lot (it covers about 250+ million hash
values). Back then I thought that 65k revisions was a lot (it was what
we were about to hit in BK), and each revision tends to be about 5-10
new objects or so, so a million objects was a big number.
These days, the kernel isn't even the largest git project, and even
the kernel has about 220k revisions (_much_ bigger than the BK tree
ever was) and we are approaching two million objects. At that point,
seven hex digits is still unique for a lot of them, but when we're
talking about just two orders of magnitude difference between number
of objects and the hash size, there _will_ be collisions in truncated
hash values. It's no longer even close to unrealistic - it happens all
the time.
We should both increase the default abbrev that was unrealistically
small, _and_ add a way for people to set their own default per-project
in the git config file.
This is the first step to first make it configurable; the default of 7
is not raised yet.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c5e183516a..30afde98ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -567,6 +567,12 @@ core.sparseCheckout:: Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information. +core.abbrevLength:: + 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. + add.ignore-errors:: add.ignoreErrors:: Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be |