commit - 97268afcc9ee0f127c73d1032592b2c495492587
commit + 654766c3806211c638a82415ea4cbfcc65b39129
blob - f76ec4a1783d611d79869b9310c21a8a09457b24
blob + 699864caa0e476d41beda09a4b630442422bd036
--- dulwich/porcelain.py
+++ dulwich/porcelain.py
@@ -1781,6 +1781,13 @@ def ls_files(repo):
         return sorted(r.open_index())
 
 
+def find_unique_abbrev(object_store, object_id):
+    """For now, just return 7 characters."""
+    # TODO(jelmer): Add some logic here to return a number of characters that
+    # scales relative with the size of the repository
+    return object_id.decode("ascii")[:7]
+
+
 def describe(repo):
     """Describe the repository version.
 
@@ -1818,7 +1825,7 @@ def describe(repo):
 
         # If there are no tags, return the current commit
         if len(sorted_tags) == 0:
-            return "g{}".format(r[r.head()].id.decode("ascii")[:7])
+            return "g{}".format(find_unique_abbrev(r.object_store, r[r.head()].id))
 
         # We're now 0 commits from the top
         commit_count = 0
blob - 4d8177fc36e4b011df20e44ae387cdc9b50ec33e
blob + a838c1e971cd9c6f8916e4fe6ad026845900aaa5
--- releaser.conf
+++ releaser.conf
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ news_file: "NEWS"
 timeout_days: 5
 tag_name: "dulwich-$VERSION"
 verify_command: "flake8 && make check"
+github_url: "https://github.com/dulwich/dulwich"
 update_version {
   path: "setup.py"
   match: "^dulwich_version_string = '(.*)'$"