Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] branch: honor core.abbrev

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 14:05:58 -0500

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> It is not clear from this description when "git branch" needs to even show
> abbreviated object name.  I'll retitle it and/or reword the description to
> hint that you are talking about "branch -v", but do you know of anything
> in "git branch" that may be affected by this change other than "-v" output?

I think it's just add_verbose_info.  "git branch" also uses
DEFAULT_ABBREV in the message

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but that is not currently affected by the --abbrev option.