Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> writes:

> Almost. While I fixed the performance issues as well as the design
> allowed, I happened to "fix" the problem where an incomplete prefix match
> could be favored over an exact match.

Hmph.  Would it require too much further work to do what you said
the code does:

> The rebase--helper code (specifically, the patch moving autosquash logic
> into it: https://github.com/dscho/git/commit/7d0831637f) tries to match
> exact onelines first, and falls back to prefix matching only after that.

If the code matches exact onlines and then falls back to prefix, I
do not think incomplete prefix would be mistakenly chosen over an
exact one, so perhaps your code already does the right thing?

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