On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 16:40 +0000, David Howells wrote: > Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Umm, no, that's not correct. > > SHA-1 lengths of 12 are unique for quite awhile yet. > > > > https://blog.cuviper.com/2013/11/10/how-short-can-git-abbreviate/ > > The article says: > > 1.9% at 12 > > which is for 3253824 objects (I get 1.86%). > > However, that was three years ago, and we now have over five million objects, > so the collision possibility is 4.5% now. > > If we add another 2 million over the next three years, then the probability > will be over 8% then. > > I've attached my spreadsheet for you to have a look at. > > > No. Use --format=email as appropriate instead. > > Fix checkpatch. This is an entirely reasonable supposition.
No. There's nothing to fix there IMO. Of course you are welcome to submit patches.
