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From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inconsistency with --abbrev=0
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:36:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906011236.51289.markus.heidelberg@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0905311046t1cd45b2cj4f889313c7781b38@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier, 31.05.2009:
> Heya,
> 
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 17:48, Markus Heidelberg
> <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:
> > What should --abbrev=0 behave like?
> 
> If the minimum is 4, then --abbrev=n with n < 4 should give an error
> saying that it should be >= 4, no?

This would break existing workflows. Currently --abbrev=[1-3] (and also
--abbrev=-n (negative numbers)) always display >=4 chars in all
commands. So you don't have to remind git's lower limit of 4, if you
just want to display as few chars as possible.
Only --abbrev=0 is different.

Markus

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-01 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-31 15:48 inconsistency with --abbrev=0 Markus Heidelberg
2009-05-31 17:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-06-01 10:36   ` Markus Heidelberg [this message]

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