Emily Shaffer <emilyshaf...@google.com> writes: > It looks like `git log --abbrev=5` also doesn't work the way one might > expect, which makes sense to me, as they use the same internals for > option parsing (parse_revisions()).
I suspect that was primarily because --abbrev-commit was only to abbreviate the commit object names on the log header, and --abbrev was to abbreviate the object names seen in the --raw output. These days, even --raw output seems to abbreviate by default, so --abbrev alone lost its usefulness quite a bit.
