From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:39:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Distribution of longest common hash prefixes
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