Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] Documentation: user-manual: limit usage of ellipsis

[Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@gmx.de>]

There is no need to use full 40-hex to identify the object names like
the examples hint at by omitting the tail part of an object name as if
that has to be spelled out but the example omits them only for brevity.
Give examples using abbreviated object names without ellipses just like
how people do in real life.

Signed-off-by: Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@gmx.de>
---
v2: rename patch series & focus on removal of ellipses
v3: env var instead of config option, use one-line comments where appropriate, preserve indent level
v4: improve env var handling (rename, helper func to query, docu)
v5: rewrite series to take Junio's comments in <xmqqd145k9td.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> aboard
 Documentation/user-manual.txt | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 3a03e63eb0d8..497e82e88dd0 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ Bisecting: 3537 revisions left to test after this
 
 If you run `git branch` at this point, you'll see that Git has
 temporarily moved you in "(no branch)". HEAD is now detached from any
-branch and points directly to a commit (with commit id 65934...) that
+branch and points directly to a commit (with commit id 65934) that
 is reachable from "master" but not from v2.6.18. Compile and test it,
 and see whether it crashes. Assume it does crash. Then:
 
@@ -549,14 +549,14 @@ says "bisect".  Choose a safe-looking commit nearby, note its commit
 id, and check it out with:
 
 -------------------------------------------------
-$ git reset --hard fb47ddb2db...
+$ git reset --hard fb47ddb2db
 -------------------------------------------------
 
 then test, run `bisect good` or `bisect bad` as appropriate, and
 continue.
 
 Instead of `git bisect visualize` and then `git reset --hard
-fb47ddb2db...`, you might just want to tell Git that you want to skip
+fb47ddb2db`, you might just want to tell Git that you want to skip
 the current commit:
 
 -------------------------------------------------
@@ -3416,7 +3416,7 @@ commit abc
 Author:
 Date:
 ...
-:100644 100644 4b9458b... newsha... M somedirectory/myfile
+:100644 100644 4b9458b newsha M somedirectory/myfile
 
 
 commit xyz
@@ -3424,7 +3424,7 @@ Author:
 Date:
 
 ...
-:100644 100644 oldsha... 4b9458b... M somedirectory/myfile
+:100644 100644 oldsha 4b9458b M somedirectory/myfile
 ------------------------------------------------
 
 This tells you that the immediately following version of the file was
@@ -3449,7 +3449,7 @@ and your repository is good again!
 $ git log --raw --all
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-and just looked for the sha of the missing object (4b9458b..) in that
+and just looked for the sha of the missing object (4b9458b) in that
 whole thing. It's up to you--Git does *have* a lot of information, it is
 just missing one particular blob version.
 
@@ -4114,9 +4114,9 @@ program, e.g.  `diff3`, `merge`, or Git's own merge-file, on
 the blob objects from these three stages yourself, like this:
 
 ------------------------------------------------
-$ git cat-file blob 263414f... >hello.c~1
-$ git cat-file blob 06fa6a2... >hello.c~2
-$ git cat-file blob cc44c73... >hello.c~3
+$ git cat-file blob 263414f >hello.c~1
+$ git cat-file blob 06fa6a2 >hello.c~2
+$ git cat-file blob cc44c73 >hello.c~3
 $ git merge-file hello.c~2 hello.c~1 hello.c~3
 ------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -4374,7 +4374,7 @@ $ git log --no-merges t/
 ------------------------
 
 In the pager (`less`), just search for "bundle", go a few lines back,
-and see that it is in commit 18449ab0...  Now just copy this object name,
+and see that it is in commit 18449ab0.  Now just copy this object name,
 and paste it into the command line
 
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2.13.6