Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] status: give more information during rebase -i

> I was about to mention the same shortcoming, but you beat me to it.
>
>> Perhaps be more strict and do this instead (without
>> leading strbuf_trim):
>>
>>         if (!get_sha1_hex(split[1]->buf, sha1) &&
>>             !strcmp(split[1]->buf + 40, " ") {
>>                 replace split[1] with "%s " abbrev
>>         }
>
> Isn't it dangerous to assume that you can index 40 characters into
> split[1]? If (for some reason), the user botched the todo line such
> that the SHA1 is no longer a valid hex string, then split[1] will be
> that botched string, which might be shorter than 40 characters. For
> instance, if the user-edited todo line is:
>
>     pick oops nothing
>
> then git-rebase--interactive.sh:transform_todo_ids() will leave "oops"
> as-is, since it can't unabbreviate it, and then this code will place
> "oops" into split[1].