From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:22:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] find_unique_abbrev(): honor caller-supplied "len" better
Message-ID: <AANLkTimH6ZKkTZ0MiJWzHpZywSy6Hk3caLQ5S+rE0uqg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvczpff89.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> +core.abbrevLength::
> +       Set the length object names are abbreviated to.  If unspecified,
> +       many commands abbreviate to 7 hexdigits, which may not be enough
> +       for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long
> +       time.
> +

Isn't this the minimum length though? i.e. a longer length is used as
needed for uniqueness. If so, at least the description is misleading,
and I'd argue the option name too. Perhaps core.abbrevMinLength?

j.