# [PATCH] Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: Clarify minimum length=4

1 messages from 2008-12-31 to 2008-12-31. Participants: jidanni@jidanni.org.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16938

## jidanni@jidanni.org, 2008-12-31 02:38

Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: Clarify minimum length=4
Message-ID: <87r63pm5lb.fsf@jidanni.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/87r63pm5lb.fsf%40jidanni.org

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Here I merely repeat "The minimum length is 4." from another part of
the page. However I do it in a critical spot, else users will think
that there is just no dress code for how short one's strings can be.

Proof: only the last line of:
git init
touch z
git add z
git cat-file -t e
git cat-file -t e6
git cat-file -t e69
git cat-file -t e69d
will finally output "blob".

Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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 Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 2921da3..8a4cdfc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
   E.g. dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735 and dae86e both
   name the same commit object if there are no other object in
   your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
+  The minimum length is 4.
 
 * An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally
   followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a
-- 
1.6.0.6

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