From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:35:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: --abbrev option
Message-ID: <7v4q56qmne.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051218114522.GW22159@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Ok, that's nice! :-) And if I'm going to machine-process this later,
> I can just trim the trailing dots anyway. And it seems that I can give
> --abbrev a number argument to specify the minimal abbreviation, even
> cooler! :-)

Well, it is not for machine consumption to begin with anyway.
It is an optional toy ;-).