Re: sporadic git failures on interactive rebase

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Henning mentioned it at the very top of his original problem report:
>
>     "(git version 2.2.0)"