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@@ -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,