Re: Distribution of longest common hash prefixes

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Apr 3, 2007, 20:39 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704031635100.28181@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcrxw6h5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I stated it wrongly.  What I was getting at was that we might
> want to consider an abbreviation that matches only a single
> commit unambiguous even when there are ambiguous objects of
> other kinds.

Maybe. But by the time your object hash distribution starts showing ambiguous objects with a given abbreviated name between a commit and a non commit, I'll bet you'll start to see ambiguities between commits soon enough as well.

> Not that I consider it a pressing issue, though.

Indeed. And even then it is not something really hard to implement either.

Nicolas