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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Distribution of longest common hash prefixes
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:39:02 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I stated it wrongly.  What I was getting at was that we might
> want to consider an abbreviation that matches only a single
> commit unambiguous even when there are ambiguous objects of
> other kinds.

Maybe.  But by the time your object hash distribution starts showing 
ambiguous objects with a given abbreviated name between a commit and a 
non commit, I'll bet you'll start to see ambiguities between commits 
soon enough as well.

> Not that I consider it a pressing issue, though.

Indeed.  And even then it is not something really hard to implement 
either.


Nicolas