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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>2011-04-06 11:20:50 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-04-05 20:08:41 -0700
commit84393bfd731c435120dc1dda63432a70124821cb (patch)
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parentfa38cfc2c6ce197960f85798aac18ee78aa83f1f (diff)
downloadgit-84393bfd731c435120dc1dda63432a70124821cb.tar.gz
blame: add --abbrev command line option and make it honor core.abbrev
If user sets config.abbrev option, use it as if --abbrev was given. This is the default value and user can override different abbrev length by specifying the --abbrev=N command line option. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m]
- [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>]
+ [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] [--abbrev=<n>]
[<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file>
DESCRIPTION
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ include::blame-options.txt[]
Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's version and
the child's to find where the lines came from.
+--abbrev=<n>::
+ Instead of using the default 7+1 hexadecimal digits as the
+ abbreviated object name, use <n>+1 digits. Note that 1 column
+ is used for a caret to mark the boundary commit.
+
THE PORCELAIN FORMAT
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