From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:38:37 GMT
Subject: Re: git-push: forced update of tag shows unabbreviated SHA1
Message-ID: <7vbq72cmaa.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080131102716.GC25546@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:06:25AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> But getting back to your point: yes, I agree it is a little ugly.
>> Rewriting find_unique_abbrev would be necessary for fixing it, and I'm
>> not sure it is worth the trouble.
>
> 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?