# [PATCH] Documentation/gittutorial.txt: minimum 4 chars to match SHA1s 1 messages from 2009-01-06 to 2009-01-06. Participants: jidanni@jidanni.org. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17006 ## jidanni@jidanni.org, 2009-01-06 02:49 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/gittutorial.txt: minimum 4 chars to match SHA1s Message-ID: <1231210140-13116-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1231210140-13116-1-git-send-email-jidanni%40jidanni.org ``` Signed-off-by: jidanni --- Documentation/gittutorial.txt | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt index 4581a5a..42c2c91 100644 --- a/Documentation/gittutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gittutorial.txt @@ -481,7 +481,8 @@ $ git show c82a22c39cbc32576f64f5c6b3f24b99ea8149c7 ------------------------------------- But there are other ways to refer to commits. You can use any initial -part of the name that is long enough to uniquely identify the commit: +part of the name that is long enough to uniquely identify the commit +(minimum is four characters): ------------------------------------- $ git show c82a22c39c # the first few characters of the name are -- 1.6.0.6 ```