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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

>   I was actually thinking to by default trim all the hashes Cogito show
> to 12 or 16 characters. Seven still seems dangerously low to me, though;
> it would be nice if the number of characters to trim would be
> configurable (unless I've missed that).

Well, I did better than you imagined this time, for a change ;-)
It trims and adds extra as needed without breaking alignments,
so you could get something like this:

>       :100755 100755 0266f46... b0e54ed... M	git-branch.sh
>       :100755 100755 f241d4b9.. 36308d2ab. M	git-checkout.sh

That is, ... is not just distraction but are part of the
design.  Cut and paste is a byproduct.