Re: Bug with fixup and autosquash

> Hi Junio,
>
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>> > Almost. While I fixed the performance issues as well as the design
>> > allowed, I happened to "fix" the problem where an incomplete prefix
>> > match could be favored over an exact match.
>>
>> Hmph.  Would it require too much further work to do what you said the
>> code does:
>
> I was just being overly precise. I *did* fix the problem. But since it was
> not my intention, I quoted the verb "fix".
>
>> > The rebase--helper code (specifically, the patch moving autosquash
>> > logic into it: https://github.com/dscho/git/commit/7d0831637f) tries
>> > to match exact onelines first, and falls back to prefix matching only
>> > after that.
>>
>> If the code matches exact onlines and then falls back to prefix, I do
>> not think incomplete prefix would be mistakenly chosen over an exact
>> one, so perhaps your code already does the right thing?
>
> The code does exactly that. It does even more: as `fixup! <SHA-1>` is
> allowed (for SHA-1s that have been mentioned in previous `pick` lines), it
> tries to match that before falling back to the incomplete prefix match.
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes