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Document git log --abbrev-commit, as a kind of pretty option
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Documentation taken from paraphrased description of "--abbrev[=<n>]"
diff option, and from description of commit 5c51c98 introducing
this option.

Note that to change number of digits one must use "--abbrev=<n>",
which affects [also] diff output.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jakub Narebski authored and Junio C Hamano committed Jun 16, 2007
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'full', 'fuller', 'email', 'raw' and 'format:<string>'.
When left out the format default to 'medium'.

--abbrev-commit::
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal commit object
name, show only handful hexdigits prefix. Non default number of
digits can be specified with "--abbrev=<n>" (which also modifies
diff output, if it is displayed).
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This should make "--pretty=oneline" a whole lot more readable for
people using 80-column terminals.

--encoding[=<encoding>]::
The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
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