Re: Distribution of longest common hash prefixes

From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 3, 2007, 23:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20070403230846.GB8479@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704031635100.28181@xanadu.home>

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 04:39:02PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > I stated it wrongly.  What I was getting at was that we might
> > want to consider an abbreviation that matches only a single
> > commit unambiguous even when there are ambiguous objects of
> > other kinds.
> 
> Maybe.  But by the time your object hash distribution starts showing 
> ambiguous objects with a given abbreviated name between a commit and a 
> non commit, I'll bet you'll start to see ambiguities between commits 
> soon enough as well.

Isn't the number of objects an order of magnitude bigger than the number of commits? Well, I guess that depends on your workflow...

OG.