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Re: webgit highlightes mem adresses as git versions

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2009, 22:54 UTC
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<200902022204.46651.toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> writes:
> As seen here 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=8ca2918f99b5861359de1805f27b08023c82abd2 
> the strings [<c043d0f3>] and firends shouldn't be recognized as git hashes, 
> isn't it ?

Gitweb, not webgit. And gitweb considers ([0-9a-fA-F]{8,40}) i.e. from 8 to 40 hexadecimal characters to be (shortened) SHA-1. It simply cannot afford checking if such object exists when displaying commit message (for example in 'log' view).

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Message 2 of 22 in “webgit highlightes mem adresses as git versions”
  1. Toralf FörsterFeb 2, 2009
  2. Jakub NarebskiFeb 2, 2009
  3. Toralf FörsterFeb 3, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 3, 2009
  5. gitweb: Better regexp for SHA-1 committag matchJakub Narebski, Feb 6, 2009
  6. Rafael Garcia-SuarezFeb 6, 2009
  7. Jakub NarebskiFeb 6, 2009
  8. Rafael Garcia-SuarezFeb 6, 2009
  9. [PATCHv2] gitweb: Better regexp for SHA-1 committag matchJakub Narebski, Feb 6, 2009
  10. Johannes SchindelinFeb 6, 2009
  11. Jay SoffianFeb 6, 2009
  12. Jakub NarebskiFeb 6, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2009
  14. Jakub NarebskiFeb 7, 2009
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  17. demerphqFeb 7, 2009
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