diff --git a/src/Composer/Downloader/GitDownloader.php b/src/Composer/Downloader/GitDownloader.php
index e3e751f46..748016f92 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Downloader/GitDownloader.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Downloader/GitDownloader.php
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ class GitDownloader extends VcsDownloader implements DvcsDownloaderInterface
     protected function getShortHash($reference)
     {
         if (!$this->io->isVerbose() && preg_match('{^[0-9a-f]{40}$}', $reference)) {
-            return substr($reference, 10);
+            return substr($reference, 0, 10);
         }
 
         return $reference;
diff --git a/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/functional/create-project-command.test b/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/functional/create-project-command.test
index d6ce7b077..1f2f36f1e 100644
--- a/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/functional/create-project-command.test
+++ b/tests/Composer/Test/Fixtures/functional/create-project-command.test
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 create-project seld/jsonlint %testDir% 1.0.0 --prefer-source -n
 --EXPECT-ERROR--
 Installing seld/jsonlint (1.0.0)
-  - Installing seld/jsonlint (1.0.0) Cloning 3b4bc2a96ff5d3fe6866bfe9dd0c845246705791
+  - Installing seld/jsonlint (1.0.0) Cloning 3b4bc2a96f
 Created project in %testDir%
 Loading composer repositories with package information
 Updating dependencies (including require-dev)