Subject: [PATCH 03/11] Document git log --abbrev-commit, as a kind of pretty option

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:03:39 +0200

Documentation taken from paraphrased description of "--abbrev[=<n>]"
diff option, and from description of commit 5c51c985 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-masked]>
---
 Documentation/pretty-options.txt |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 6338def..746bc5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@
 	'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
 	When left out the format default to 'medium'.
 
+--abbrev-commit::
+	Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
+	name, show only handful hexdigits prefix.  Non default number of
+	digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
+	diff output, if it is displayed).
++
+This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable for
+people using 80-column terminals.
+
 --encoding[=<encoding>]::
 	The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
 	in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
-- 
1.5.2