I recently installed counsel and I like what it is doing, but I got a problem with it:

Usually, when I typed a command in the M-x minibuffer, like mag-log short for magit-log, it would choose the shortest match. With counsel however, it does not and does some other magit function, which I don't know and am not used to. To fix this, I have to type out the whole function name magit-log and cannot use my usual shortcuts of typing less characters. This has only annoyed me with M-x and not with counsel-find-file or other use cases so far.

For this reason, I would like to configure counsel, so that it does not override what function M-x calls, but leave it as is, or restore the normal M-x function, after counsel is loaded.

How can I do that?

(Alternatively, I would like to change the sort order, so that the shortest matching command is preferred again.)