W dniu 06.10.2016 o 11:11, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason pisze:
> Change the minimum length of an abbreviated object identifier in the
> commit message gitweb tries to turn into link from 8 hexchars to 7.
>
> This arbitrary minimum length of 8 was introduced in bfe2191 ("gitweb:
> SHA-1 in commit log message links to "object" view", 2006-12-10), but
> the default abbreviation length is 7, and has been for a long time.
>
> It's still possible to reference SHA1s down to 4 characters in length,
> see v1.7.4-1-gdce9648's MINIMUM_ABBREV, but I can't see how to make
> git actually produce that, so I doubt anyone is putting that into log
> messages in practice, but people definitely do put 7 character SHA1s
> into log messages.
That's nice explanation why we want to support 7 character SHA-1
(it is the default, and was seen in the wild), but don't need to
support shorter lengths.
Another reason (just for completeness; you don't need to put it in
the commit message) to not go below 7 characters is that with
decreasing length there is more and more chance for false positives
(like 'beef' or 'caffee' for 4-char or 5-char hexstring), as I wrote
previously.
s/SHA1/SHA-1/g in above paragraph (for correctness and consistency).
>
> I think it's fairly dubious to link to things matching [0-9a-fA-F]
> here as opposed to just [0-9a-f], that dates back to the initial
> version of gitweb from 161332a ("first working version",
> 2005-08-07). Git will accept all-caps SHA1s, but didn't ever produce
> them as far as I can tell.
All right. If we decide to be more strict in what we accept, we can
do it in a separate commit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Narębski <jna...@gmail.com>
> ---
> gitweb/gitweb.perl | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index cba7405..92b5e91 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ sub format_log_line_html {
> my $line = shift;
>
> $line = esc_html($line, -nbsp=>1);
> - $line =~ s{\b([0-9a-fA-F]{8,40})\b}{
> + $line =~ s{\b([0-9a-fA-F]{7,40})\b}{
By the way, it is quite long commit message for one character change.
Not that it is a bad thing...
> $cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"object", hash=>$1),
> -class => "text"}, $1);
> }eg;
>
