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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-12-03 16:10:35 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-12-03 16:10:35 -0800 |
| commit | 63ae595c6d60ac238e8a785bd811db41de74e93d (patch) | |
| tree | 06a8969c011b95bea88ee34ccae75b1c5ff6dda0 /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | 5e738ae820ec53c45895b029baa3a1f63e654b1b (diff) | |
| parent | 72a5b561fc1c4286bc7c5b0693afc076af261e1f (diff) | |
| download | git-63ae595c6d60ac238e8a785bd811db41de74e93d.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'jc/abbrev-guard'
* jc/abbrev-guard:
core.abbrevguard: Ensure short object names stay unique a bit longer
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 6b7279f883..ad5eb5f21d 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -374,6 +374,15 @@ core.warnAmbiguousRefs:: If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default. +core.abbrevguard:: + Even though git makes sure that it uses enough hexdigits to show + an abbreviated object name unambiguously, as more objects are + added to the repository over time, a short name that used to be + unique will stop being unique. Git uses this many extra hexdigits + that are more than necessary to make the object name currently + unique, in the hope that its output will stay unique a bit longer. + Defaults to 0. + core.compression:: An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, |