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

Namhyung Kim [off-list ref] writes:

Honor 'core.abbrev' configuration unless user specifies the
length on command line. In order to do that, we need to set

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?

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.