From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jidanni@jidanni.org Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/gittutorial.txt: minimum 4 chars to match SHA1s Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:49:00 +0800 Message-ID: <1231210140-13116-1-git-send-email-jidanni@jidanni.org> Cc: gitster@pobox.com To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 06 03:50:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LK21Q-0004LG-W5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:50:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751286AbZAFCtH (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:49:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751211AbZAFCtG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:49:06 -0500 Received: from balanced.mail.policyd.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.119]:50421 "EHLO homiemail-a2.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750738AbZAFCtF (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:49:05 -0500 Received: from jidanni.org (122-127-36-59.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.36.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by homiemail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64491D271B; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:49:02 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.0.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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