Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] gitweb: Link to 7-char+ SHA1s, not only 8-char+

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 6, 2016, 19:44 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq37k9jm86.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161006091135.29590-3-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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> Change the minimum length of an abbreviated object identifier in the
> commit message gitweb tries to turn into link from 8 hexchars to 7.
>
> This arbitrary minimum length of 8 was introduced in bfe2191 ("gitweb:
> SHA-1 in commit log message links to "object" view", 2006-12-10), but
> the default abbreviation length is 7, and has been for a long time.
>
> It's still possible to reference SHA1s down to 4 characters in length,
> see v1.7.4-1-gdce9648's MINIMUM_ABBREV, but I can't see how to make
> git actually produce that, so I doubt anyone is putting that into log
> messages in practice, but people definitely do put 7 character SHA1s
> into log messages.
>
> I think it's fairly dubious to link to things matching [0-9a-fA-F]
> here as opposed to just [0-9a-f], that dates back to the initial
> version of gitweb from 161332a ("first working version",
> 2005-08-07). Git will accept all-caps SHA1s, but didn't ever produce
> them as far as I can tell.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> ---

s/SHA1/SHA-1/g.  I agree that A-F are dubious.

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>  gitweb/gitweb.perl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index cba7405..92b5e91 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ sub format_log_line_html {
>  	my $line = shift;
>  
>  	$line = esc_html($line, -nbsp=>1);
> -	$line =~ s{\b([0-9a-fA-F]{8,40})\b}{
> +	$line =~ s{\b([0-9a-fA-F]{7,40})\b}{
>  		$cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"object", hash=>$1),
>  					-class => "text"}, $1);
>  	}eg;