Merge branch 'lt/default-abbrev'

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 701fba92dc1cfda8982aee8b66eb39b8b1c5816b..8ea55d46add1da6d1e810cb126a7ecc5ce456650 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -558,6 +558,12 @@ core.sparseCheckout::
        Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
        linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
 
+core.abbrev::
+       Set the length object names are abbreviated to.  If unspecified,
+       many commands abbreviate to 7 hexdigits, which may not be enough
+       for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long
+       time.
+
 add.ignore-errors::
 add.ignoreErrors::
        Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be