🐛 Using --hyperlink, commit hashes are only clickable when at least of length 8

[chrisgrieser]

# commit hashes are not clickable
git log -n5 --abbrev=7 

# they are clickable now
git log -n5 --abbrev=8

This is kinda unfortunate, since 7 seems to be the default output length by git, meaning you have to explicitly set the length to 8 to make it work.

[dandavison]

Hi @chrisgrieser,

7 seems to be the default output length by git

Do you have log.abbrev-commit set in your git config? I see that makes it defaults to 7, so maybe it would make sense for our lower bound to be 7.

[chrisgrieser]

Yes, I have.

However, 7 is not only caused by log.abbrevCommit, but also by using format="%h", so it is far more common

[th1000s]

Indeed, if the number of objects isn't to large the commit hashes can be abbreviated to 7 characters. Git will only use longer prefixes when needed. Fixed in #1924