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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: recognize six digit abbreviated SHA1

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Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date
Jan 14, 2009, 00:33 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> When people give an abbreviated object name, 99% of the time they mean
> commits (and "index deadbeef..acebead" in a patch is a good place to pick
> blob object names from, which would be what the 99% of the remaining 1%
> would name), so making sure it is a commit or a blob would be a very
> sensible thing to do.
>
> Unfortunately, you fundamentally cannot do this without taking a
> performance hit of actually opening the object.
>

Yeah. I envisioned this just for those cases where the tool would otherwise return 'ambiguous argument'; if there was a hint as to the object type, open *all* the matching objects and return the one that matched the type only.

Sam.
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  1. gitweb: recognize six digit abbreviated SHA1Anders Melchiorsen, Jan 13, 2009
  2. Anders MelchiorsenJan 13, 2009
  3. Sam VilainJan 13, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 13, 2009
  5. Sam VilainJan 14, 2009

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