{"thread":{"id":"16938","subject":"[PATCH] Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: Clarify minimum length=4","startedAt":"2008-12-31T02:38:40Z","lastAt":"2008-12-31T02:38:40Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["jidanni@jidanni.org"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"99030","messageId":"87r63pm5lb.fsf@jidanni.org","threadId":"16938","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: Clarify minimum length=4","fromName":"","fromEmail":"jidanni@jidanni.org","sentAt":"2008-12-31T02:38:40Z","receivedAt":"2008-12-31T02:38:40Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"jidanni@jidanni.org","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/36568d4af4c8d3e71627ef3b8c8d00e39065b12f29676cccd38ced75e68fa2a6?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Here I merely repeat \"The minimum length is 4.\" from another part of\nthe page. However I do it in a critical spot, else users will think\nthat there is just no dress code for how short one's strings can be.\n\nProof: only the last line of:\ngit init\ntouch z\ngit add z\ngit cat-file -t e\ngit cat-file -t e6\ngit cat-file -t e69\ngit cat-file -t e69d\nwill finally output \"blob\".\n\nSigned-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>\n---\n Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt |    1 +\n 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt\nindex 2921da3..8a4cdfc 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt\n@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ blobs contained in a commit.\n   E.g. dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735 and dae86e both\n   name the same commit object if there are no other object in\n   your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.\n+  The minimum length is 4.\n \n * An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally\n   followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a\n-- \n1.6.0.6\n"}]}