> I can't find an 'official' reference for it, but I believe GitHub says that 7 > characters are unique (7**26). Anyway, if it were not unique, the MacPorts > checksums would alert the user. Seems safe to me. > > I also use the short hash as part of the full version string for the port > since it identifies the last commit included from the branch. This may or may > not matter to other ports.
Feel free to use `$ git log --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline` to find out just how long your hash needs to be to be guaranteed unique in the repository. Seven is the default, but it will increase if necessary. >From the git site: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Revision-Selection _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
