From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 03:13:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] pretty: make %H/%h/etc respect --abbrev[-commit]
Message-ID: <7vocgzyp1f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1272656128-2002-3-git-send-email-wmpalmer@gmail.com>

Will Palmer <wmpalmer@gmail.com> writes:

> Prior to this, the output of %H was always 40 characters long, and the
> output of %h always DEFAULT_ABBREV characters long, without regard to
> whether --abbrev-commit or --abbrev had been passed.
>
> Here we make "git log --pretty=%H --abbrev-commit" synonymous with
> "git log --pretty=%h", and make %h/abbreviated-%H respect the length
> specified for --abbrev.

I think it is a good change to make %h follow --abbrev, but %H should stay
the full length no matter what (otherwise why would anybody use %H not %h?).