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Possible bug with `export-subst' attribute

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Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Date
Jul 25, 2010, 09:08 UTC
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<19531.65276.394443.190317@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>
I have a file with:
  (define archive-id "$Format:%ct|%h|a$")

and an `export-subst' attribute -- and it looks like the "%h" results in a full sha1 instead of the abbreviated one when used with `git archive'. This is with 1.7..2 -- I'm not sure, but I think that it worked fine with 1.7.1.

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  15. 3/3 examples/commit: use --abbrev for commit summaryJonathan Nieder, Jul 27, 2010

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