From 48d5014dd42cc4a4465162c9807eaa253715e105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 18:34:07 -0700 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/config.txt | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') 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):: -- cgit v1.2.3