From: Kyle Moffett Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:15:03 GMT Subject: Re: [IGNORETHIS/PATCH] Choosing the sha1 prefix of your commits Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20111020025149.GA31549@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 22:51, Jeff King wrote: > Keep in mind that each hex character you add increases the search space > by a factor of 16. deadbeef took about 70 seconds to find on my machine. > I'm tempted to look for "3133700..0031337", but it would probably > take about 4 hours. Heh, there's one other practical downside I can think of... If you create a bunch of commits with the same 8-hex-character prefix then suddenly the "git describe" logic for using the first 7 commit ID characters gets a whole lot less useful. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- Curious about my work on the Debian powerpcspe port? I'm keeping a blog here: http://pureperl.blogspot.com/