From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Subject: Re: Distribution of longest common hash prefixes
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:11:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867istcrhr.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r6r1jsmq.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (James Cloos's message of "Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:04:54 -0400")
>>>>> "James" == James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
James> With that version the kernel gives:
James> 0:
James> 1:
James> 2:
James> 3: 565
James> 4: 288450
James> 5: 139080
James> 6: 10699
James> 7: 700
James> 8: 32
James> 9: 2
Fascinating. So you can spell out *any* commit in linux-2.6.git with
10 hex chars. What do we need 40 for, again? :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-03 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 14:58 Distribution of longest common hash prefixes Peter Eriksen
2007-04-02 15:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-02 16:29 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-02 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-02 17:17 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-02 17:33 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-03 17:04 ` James Cloos
2007-04-03 17:11 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2007-04-03 17:21 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-03 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-03 18:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-03 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-03 19:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-03 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-03 20:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-03 23:08 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-03 23:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-04 21:03 ` James Cloos
2007-04-02 17:18 ` James Cloos
2007-04-02 15:28 ` Peter Eriksen
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