Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] gitweb: Link to 7-char+ SHA1s, not only 8-char+
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> As far as I can tell the only outstanding "change this" is your
>> s/SHA1/SHA-1/ in <xmqq37k9jm86.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>, do
>> you want to fix that up or should I submit another series?
>
> I think I did that already myself while queuing. Could you fetch
> what I queued on 'pu' to double check?
Thanks, looked at it, looks good to me!
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> I think the diff between what was posted and what is queued (I just
> checked) looks like this:
>
> -gitweb: Link to 7-char+ SHA1s, not only 8-char+
> +gitweb: link to 7-char+ SHA-1s, not only 8-char+
>
> Change the minimum length of an abbreviated object identifier in the
> commit message gitweb tries to turn into link from 8 hexchars to 7.
>
> @@ -5,16 +12,18 @@
> SHA-1 in commit log message links to "object" view", 2006-12-10), but
> the default abbreviation length is 7, and has been for a long time.
>
> -It's still possible to reference SHA1s down to 4 characters in length,
> +It's still possible to reference SHA-1s down to 4 characters in length,
> see v1.7.4-1-gdce9648's MINIMUM_ABBREV, but I can't see how to make
> git actually produce that, so I doubt anyone is putting that into log
> -messages in practice, but people definitely do put 7 character SHA1s
> +messages in practice, but people definitely do put 7 character SHA-1s
> into log messages.
>
> I think it's fairly dubious to link to things matching [0-9a-fA-F]
> here as opposed to just [0-9a-f], that dates back to the initial
> version of gitweb from 161332a ("first working version",
> -2005-08-07). Git will accept all-caps SHA1s, but didn't ever produce
> +2005-08-07). Git will accept all-caps SHA-1s, but didn't ever produce
> them as far as I can tell.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> +Acked-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
> +Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>