cache: add a function to read an object ID from a buffer

diff --git a/Documentation/rebase-config.txt b/Documentation/rebase-config.txt
index 30ae08cb5a4be4a68f529bff8674ba620daeb2e0..42e1ba757564e3ccff6da48895a06a65e03fa524 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/rebase-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rebase-config.txt
@@ -30,3 +30,23 @@ rebase.instructionFormat::
        A format string, as specified in linkgit:git-log[1], to be used for the
        todo list during an interactive rebase.  The format will
        automatically have the long commit hash prepended to the format.
+
+rebase.abbreviateCommands::
+       If set to true, `git rebase` will use abbreviated command names in the
+       todo list resulting in something like this:
++
+-------------------------------------------
+       p deadbee The oneline of the commit
+       p fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
+       ...
+-------------------------------------------
++
+instead of:
++
+-------------------------------------------
+       pick deadbee The oneline of the commit
+       pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
+       ...
+-------------------------------------------
++
+Defaults to false.