Hi Dave, On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:08:02 +1100 Dave Chinner wrote: > > Might be worth adding this to the boiler plate code: > > This can be fixed by adding the following to your ~/.gitconfig file: > > [core] > abbrev = 12 Actually, since git v2.11 (released Nov 29, 2016), abbrev = auto (which is the default) means that the default scales with the size of the repository. For Linus' tree, that currently produces 12 digit commit SHA1 abbreviations, but will probably soon become 13. So the best currently, is to *not* set core.abbrev (or set it to something above 12 (for future robustness). See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181220000112.24891-1-avarab@gmail.com/ -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell