Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: hardcoded core.abbrev considered harmful!

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 01:01 +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Stop recommending that core.abbrev=12 be hardcoded when referring to
> kernel commits, and instead rely on the git's default abbreviation.

Nothing happened to this patch and there was no reply to
it as far as I can tell.

This may be sensible for future git versions, but perhaps
there should be a different abbrev control added and the
kernel should enable that.

> As an aside I have upcoming git.git patches so you'll be able to set
> core.abbbrev to e.g. +1 to get "13" now, "14" when it rolls over at
> ~16 million etc. Maybe that'll be a good fit for projects like
> linux.git that want more future-proof abbreviated SHAs than most.

Will '$ git config --get core.abbrev' return a specific
number in that case?

(not +1 and not blank as current if unspecified)