Re: sporadic git failures on interactive rebase

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 09:12:46AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>> > What happens if we rebase with it?
>> >
>> >   $ git checkout 01319837
>> >   $ git rebase -i HEAD^
>> >
>> > will yield a todo file with the 8-character unambiguous abbreviation.
>> >
>> > So I guess all is working as intended there. Perhaps you really were
>> > just very unlucky and an earlier step of the rebase created a
>> > conflicting sha1.
>>
>> That would mean 75c69766 (rebase -i: fix short SHA-1 collision,
>> 2013-08-23) did not fix what it intended to fix, no?  Is the symptom
>> coming from pre-1.8.4.2 version of Git?
>
> Yeah, you're right. I didn't even remember that commit at all. On the
> off chance that the abbreviation code was different in that earlier
> version, I also checked rebasing 01319837 with an older version, but it
> does work fine.
>
> So yeah, the most plausible theory to me so far is unluckiness combined
> with pre-1.8.4.2. That should be easy to disprove if Henning tells us
> his git version.