Re: [PATCH 2/2] rebase: teach --autosquash to match on sha1 in addition to message
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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 4, 2010, 10:44 UTC
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Heya,
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 05:49, Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
> I just realized that this only works for sha1's of up to 7 characters. > If you provide more it won't match, as it's comparing against the sha1 > given in the todo list. I wonder if it's worth resolving all sha1s to > their full length if the provided string is longer than 7 characters?
Well, not if you're resolving them based on the 7-character string from the rebase todo list. If you run in to ambiguity with those 7-length hash we should instead increase the length of the hashes in the todo list.
So I'd say, solve this by doing a prefix match?
-- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier