From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 05:58:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] core.abbrev: raise the default abbreviation to 12 hexdigits
Message-ID: <ae9dbf3b-4190-8145-a59f-0d578067032a@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160928233047.14313-5-gitster@pobox.com>

Am 29.09.2016 um 01:30 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> As Peff said, responding in a thread started by Linus's suggestion
> to raise the default abbreviation to 12 hexdigits:

This is waayy too large for a new default. The vast majority of 
repositories is smallish. For those, the long sequences of hex digits 
are an uglification that is almost unbearable.

I know that kernel developers are important, but their importance has 
long been outnumbered by the anonymous and silent masses of users.

Personally, I use 8 digits just because it is a "rounder" number than 7, 
but in all of my repositories 7 would still work just as well.

-- Hannes