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

From: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
Date: Dec 7, 2005, 22:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20051207221945.GB27619@diku.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20051207221449.GA27619@diku.dk>

Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> wrote Wed, Dec 07, 2005:

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote Wed, Dec 07, 2005:
> > Dear diary, on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:39:43PM CET, I got a letter
> > where Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> said that...
> > > -	# 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.
> > 
> > Huh. The code in sha1_name.c speaks differently and it works as well:
> > 
> > 	$ git-rev-parse b1fc
> > 	b1fcca45069d4f6b00a9ac7136be4268d09fd6b9
> 
> I had this one testcase:
>

	~/src/elinks/0.11 > git-rev-parse --verify e6b6
	error: short SHA1 e6b6 is ambiguous.
	fatal: Needed a single revision

> 	~/src/elinks/0.11 > cg-object-id e6b6
> 	e6b65b543108bfeb95ea24978112b46e34cfde87
> 
> Could it have something to do with the local packing?

-- 
Jonas Fonseca