[PATCH] cg-object-id: comment the alternate id shortcut parsing

From

Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>

Date

Dec 7, 2005, 21:39 UTC

Message-ID

<20051207213943.GC25890@diku.dk>

Add comment about why Cogito's own 4 digit id shortcut parser is needed.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>

 cg-object-id |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cg-object-id b/cg-object-id
index 56d9f91..ea04dca 100755
--- a/cg-object-id
+++ b/cg-object-id
@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ normalize_id()
 		id="$revid"
 		valid=1
 
-	# Short id's must be lower case and at least 4 digits.
+	# Short id's must be lower case and at least 4 digits. git-rev-parse(1)
+	# allows only down to 5 digits and we want to show the list of matched
+	# ids.
 	elif [[ "$id" == [0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f][0-9a-f]* ]]; then
 		idpref=${id:0:2}
 		idpost=${id:2}

-- 
Jonas Fonseca