From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:09:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rev-list: clarify --abbrev and --abbrev-commit usage
Message-ID: <xmqq8su4up14.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190613221541.10007-1-emilyshaffer@google.com>

Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> writes:

> It looks like `git log --abbrev=5` also doesn't work the way one might
> expect, which makes sense to me, as they use the same internals for
> option parsing (parse_revisions()).

I suspect that was primarily because --abbrev-commit was only to
abbreviate the commit object names on the log header, and --abbrev
was to abbreviate the object names seen in the --raw output.  These
days, even --raw output seems to abbreviate by default, so --abbrev
alone lost its usefulness quite a bit.