From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:45:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] core.abbrev: raise the default abbreviation to 12 hexdigits
Message-ID: <xmqqwphuebhd.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxNVbvyERNc_xEhrtfTVMGz3hkeAx1nv9vW+dhJwCpp6g@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> But you could easily also just instead have it do something like
>
>       if (default_abbrev < 0)
>             default_abbrev = initialize_abbrev();
>
> at startup time if "abbrev_commit" is set, and just do it once and for
> all rather rthan the odd loping behavior.

I think that is a reasonable way to go.

#define DEFAULT_ABBREV get_default_abbrev()

would help.