blame: add --abbrev command line option and make it honor core.abbrev

[git.git] / Documentation / git-blame.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index c4d1ff86c90d22ffea3fff173ee6b76d88013dab..bb8edb4abc5adc8a7b9d46d839415997919871af 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental] [-L n,m]
-           [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>]
+           [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>] [--abbrev=<n>]
            [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>] [--] <file>
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ include::blame-options.txt[]
        Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's version and
        the child's to find where the lines came from.
 
+--abbrev=<n>::
+       Instead of using the default 7+1 hexadecimal digits as the
+       abbreviated object name, use <n>+1 digits. Note that 1 column
+       is used for a caret to mark the boundary commit.
+
 
 THE PORCELAIN FORMAT
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