Re: [IGNORETHIS/PATCH] Choosing the sha1 prefix of your commits

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

And nothing shows up in the body, because git truncates at the NUL we
added:

  $ git show
  commit 31337a1093af2d97eb2e6c08b261c2946395fdd3
  Author: Jeff King [off-list ref]
  Date:   Wed Oct 19 15:34:00 2011 -0400

      10

  diff --git a/file b/file

But you cannot hide from "cat-file commit" ;-)

With the recent push to more (perceived) security, it may probably make
sense to teach "log" family commands to quote-show ^@ and what is behind
in their output by default, perhaps with an option to turn it off.