-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Right now, ambiguous artifact IDs are handled by showing a page listing all (*) the artifacts with the prefix.
I suggest jumping straight to the oldest artifact with the prefix, but showing the alternatives on the page. Perhaps it would be easier to simply show a warning that there is ambiguity, and link to a disambiguation page like Fossil currently has. At the time an abbreviated artifact ID is generated (e.g. when making timeline HTML, from which the user may copy into a checkin comment), it's unambiguous. I should hope. Later checkins and other activity may collide with those old abbreviations, but we can safely disambiguate by assuming the oldest is what was intended, since again it was unambiguous at the time it was generated. As for the other possible cause of ambiguity (the user shortening the artifact ID without checking for ambiguity), that's (maybe?) a rarer case but is still handled via the alternatives list. What does "oldest" mean? To be accurate, it would have to ignore date overrides and instead look at when the artifact was actually entered into the database, rather than where it shows up on the timeline. I'm making the assumption that every time an abbreviated artifact ID is displayed in any form, the code first checks if it's ambiguous or not, then picks a longer form if needed, adding a certain number of digits each time it's not unique. (*) Is this really true of all types? I seem to remember there being some artificial partitioning and differences in handling various artifact types. - -- Andy Goth | <andrew.m.goth/at/gmail/dot/com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJToLEKAAoJELtYwrrr47Y42NsIANJEoFhHtqpH4RwiEyCidmKn G2v7IeD/OzwamA0PhExy1NtyvPJ0hoNrRgm73UAJKKPLkNj3EXb0jD0jkPiBLa0I SRyOA+kVuysloSfvUXCN9emhxjmEPinPiOD1+9KcAKXzkRTsSBp0OGI9Hx4Inb0i 4ElDiG5hqRWu1jtuvaESeHL/E4RtpsWgj+iCrSX/KjfeaRmjvGgVCzJlASmRthe9 AQ9G83rHZh4uiCQpD0vbDt4FSDSGZs+zK40pqet7UAWw3VCOSs1gZ6KPAW7tMoQi akMKdDb0Z1YxeBV1lLGEPbvj6cMLADGLgX3w0DujQP2x6ZKiB8OEIx9sphSfSDo= =cyuB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
