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Re: [PATCH] Look at both unpacked and packed objects for short name expansion

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 16, 2005, 00:49 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0509160246280.10401@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I suspect your patch is an attempt to fix the last one, but I am
> not sure..

Half correct. I was not thinking it through... I had that case where I called git-whatchanged with a short sha1 and I kept getting the wrong history until I realized that the short sha1 was only unique when looking at the unpacked objects only.

Maybe I find time tomorrow to do something about the three problems you mentioned.

Ciao, Dscho

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