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Document git log --abbrev-commit, as a kind of pretty option
Documentation taken from paraphrased description of "--abbrev[=<n>]" diff option, and from description of commit 5c51c98 introducing this option. Note that to change number of digits one must use "--abbrev=<n>", which affects [also] diff output. Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/pretty-options.txt

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'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
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When left out the format default to 'medium'.
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--abbrev-commit::
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Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
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name, show only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of
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digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
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diff output, if it is displayed).
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This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable for
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people using 80-column terminals.
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--encoding[=<encoding>]::
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The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
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in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the

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