Hi all, On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 20:06:19 -0700 Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > > exactly like you did. It's just that with 12 characters in the hex > format, people will still be able to cut-and-paste the hash into git > to get the full commit details even a year from now. With just 7 hex > digits, you may well end up in the situation where you do > > git show e23d415 > > and git says > > error: short SHA1 e23d415 is ambiguous. > fatal: ambiguous argument 'e23d415': unknown revision or path not > in the working tree. > > (it's not ambiguous today, but in a year or two it quite possibly will be).
I have already had over the years a few instances of 7 digit commit hashes that are unique in Linus' tree but not in mine (which is a bit of a pain if you are trying to look for context). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell
