From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Minimum git commit abbrev length (Was Re: -tip: origin tree build failure (was: [GIT PULL] ext4 update) for 2.6.37)
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:27:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101028172725.GA6814@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101028171701.GA18368@elte.hu>
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 07:17:01PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Yes. Except for the kernel the default git commit abbreviation is
> > borderline too short. Seven hex-chars can easily alias with a few
> > more pulls from me: git will not give aliases at the time it gives
> > a shorthand, but a month or two later the abbreviated commit may
> > no longer be unique.
> >
> > So I suggest using --abbrev=12 or similar.
>
> ok. A helper script i use does this:
>
> git log --pretty=format:"%h: %s" $@
>
> I have added --abbrev=12. Might make sense to lengthen the %h
> default in upstream Git as well?
Maybe the right thing to do is add a git config option which allows
for a configurable minimum git commit abbreviation length?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-28 4:52 [GIT PULL] ext4 update for 2.6.37 Theodore Ts'o
2010-10-28 4:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2010-10-28 7:50 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2010-10-28 7:56 ` -tip: origin tree build failure (was: [GIT PULL] ext4 update for 2.6.37) Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 7:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 12:12 ` Theodore Tso
2010-10-28 12:12 ` Theodore Tso
2010-10-28 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-28 16:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 16:55 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-10-28 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-28 17:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 17:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-28 17:27 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2010-10-28 18:28 ` Minimum git commit abbrev length (Was Re: -tip: origin tree build failure (was: [GIT PULL] ext4 update) " Linus Torvalds
2010-10-28 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-29 0:14 ` Minimum git commit abbrev length (Was Re: -tip: origin tree build failure Brandon Casey
2010-10-28 21:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-28 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-28 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-10 22:37 ` [PATCH] find_unique_abbrev(): honor caller-supplied "len" better Junio C Hamano
2011-03-10 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-11 0:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-11 1:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-11 1:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-11 2:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-11 3:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-11 3:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-11 5:22 ` Jeff King
2011-03-11 5:33 ` Jeff King
2011-03-11 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-13 13:30 ` Namhyung Kim
2011-03-19 1:22 ` Jay Soffian
2011-03-19 16:24 ` Namhyung Kim
2010-11-01 16:34 ` ext3 patches related to uninitialized memory references Roman Borisov
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