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From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	"Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Subject: Re: Distribution of longest common hash prefixes
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:03:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bqi3ons2.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704031046150.6730@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue\, 3 Apr 2007 10\:50\:34 -0700 \(PDT\)")

>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

Linus> Well, neither of the the two objects at 9 bytes may not be (and
Linus> probably aren't) commits and of the 32 8-nibble cases who knows
Linus> how many are actually commits (probably none), so an 8-byte SHA1
Linus> is *probably* unique at least if you just look at commits.

Linus> Remove the "--objects" to find out.

That makes for:

0: 
1: 
2: 1
3: 23320
4: 25431
5: 2259
6: 134
7: 8

But is the kernel large enough to be sufficiently representative?

Did Jon complete an import of the 'zilla src?  

Has anyone tried to import OOo?

-JimC
-- 
James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-04 21:12 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
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 [this message]
2007-04-02 17:18     ` James Cloos
2007-04-02 15:28 ` Peter Eriksen

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