Re: [PATCH] diff: --abbrev option

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

  I was actually thinking to by default trim all the hashes Cogito show
to 12 or 16 characters. Seven still seems dangerously low to me, though;
it would be nice if the number of characters to trim would be
configurable (unless I've missed that).

Well, I did better than you imagined this time, for a change ;-)
It trims and adds extra as needed without breaking alignments,
so you could get something like this:

      :100755 100755 0266f46... b0e54ed... M	git-branch.sh
      :100755 100755 f241d4b9.. 36308d2ab. M	git-checkout.sh

That is, ... is not just distraction but are part of the
design.  Cut and paste is a byproduct.