Re: [Valgrind-developers] Migrating Valgrind sources from SVN to GIT

[Matthias S. <zz...@ge...>]

Am 01.03.2017 um 14:24 schrieb Ivo Raisr:
> 2017-02-27 21:45 GMT+01:00 Matthias Schwarzott <zz...@ge...>:
>>
>> I wonder if the parameter 10 in --abbrev=10 should be skipped, now that
>> git has an automatic estimation for the number of digits to be used.
> 
> Are you referring to "--short=10" command line option for "git rev-parse"?

Exactly.

> The manual [1] states that if no length is specified than 7 is used.
> Could you give us a reference where the automatic length estimation is
> described?
> I.
> 
> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rev-parse/
> 

Documentation can be seen here (only for the config value):
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#git-config-coreabbrev

I did not find more documentation.

The new behaviour was added to git with this merge commit:
https://github.com/git/git/commit/d7ae013a3173c621a3556be6834d459ece60e130

A description can be found here:
https://github.com/git/git/commit/e6c587c733b4634030b353f4024794b08bc86892

I think the new behaviour it is contained since at least git v2.11

Regards
Matthias