Re: git-blame vs. abbrev

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Laszlo Ersek <laszlo.ersek@posteo.net> writes:

>> ... the same object, I suspect you wouldn't even notice that the
>> hexadecimal digits you see on the screen have one digit longer than
>> usual ;-).
>
> That's it precisely! :) I do *not* notice that the hash from git-blame
> has one more hexadecimal character than the central abbrev setting; so I
> just go ahead and blindly cut n' paste it, using the mouse, from the
> terminal, to the editor search box ...

Which means that there does not need any configuration variable to
trigger the new behaviour to protect your workflow from breaking, I
think, and instead we can just go ahead with the "-b then no extra
column for '^'" change, right? ;-)