From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:41:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git-push: forced update of tag shows unabbreviated SHA1
Message-ID: <20080131104107.GE25546@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vbq72cmaa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:38:37AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > Actually, it looks like we already handle a similar case: the null sha1,
> > so the change isn't that big (and the null sha1 case folds nicely into
> > the "missing" case).
> 
> Heh, "Make sure to abbreviate something that does not match" ---
> I forgot about that trick I did looooooooong time ago ;-).
> 
> I like the idea.  Does it not break anything?

No idea. :) I will hold onto it and submit a cleaned up version
post-1.5.4.

-Peff