From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Alberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Subject: Re: [REVISED PATCH 2/6] Introduce commit notes
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:34:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070719103436.GA9143@dspnet.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707181949490.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:28:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And yes, the "search for zero bytes" is not *guaranteed* to find any
> beginning at all, if you have lots of short names, *and* lots of zero
> bytes in the SHA1's. But while short names may be common, zero bytes in
> SHA1's are not so much (since you should expect to see a very even
> distribution of bytes, and as such most SHA1's by far should have no zero
> bytes at all!)
The probability of a sha1 to have a zero is approximatively 0.075.
That's 1 in 13, more or less.
OG.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-15 23:19 [PATCH 0/6] Introduce commit notes Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:22 ` [PATCH 1/6] Rename git_one_line() to git_line_length() and export it Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:23 ` [PATCH 2/6] Introduce commit notes Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-15 23:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16 0:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-16 5:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19 2:30 ` [REVISED PATCH " Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 3:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 5:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19 9:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19 9:57 ` Adam Hayek
2007-07-19 10:58 ` Andy Parkins
2007-07-19 11:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 14:33 ` Andy Parkins
2007-07-19 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-20 0:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-20 4:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-19 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 9:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 10:34 ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
2007-07-19 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19 9:05 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-07-19 9:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 9:54 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2007-07-15 23:23 ` [PATCH 3/6] Add git-notes Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16 5:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19 2:31 ` [REVISED PATCH " Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-19 2:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:24 ` [PATCH 4/6] Add a test script for "git notes" Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16 5:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19 2:32 ` [REVISED PATCH " Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:24 ` [PATCH 5/6] Document git-notes Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:26 ` [WIP PATCH 6/6] notes: add notes-index for a substantial speedup Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-15 23:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16 6:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-16 16:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16 7:57 ` [PATCH 0/6] Introduce commit notes Andy Parkins
2007-07-16 8:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-16 16:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-16 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-19 1:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
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