Dear diary, on Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:59:57PM CEST, I got a letter where Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> said that... > >>> Would it even be necessary to use any SHA-1 name in these cases, > >>> I wonder. Would it make the page less useful if we replace all > >>> of the above _commit_ with a fixed string, say, "parent"? > > > > I really disagree here - what's the point of not using SHA-1? The extra > > string carries zero information in comparison with the previous state > > and I just can't see how it *improves* stuff. If you're walking in a > > maze and making marks on walls, it's still more useful if you have > > corridors named by "A", "B", "C", "D" on junctions if you sometimes want > > to walk back to the marked corridors. > > That's why instead of resending the patch/amending the commit, I have > put changing shortened SHA1 to constant name in new patch. Huh, I don't quite understand. You threw away all the "A", "B", "C", "D" and kept only the marks. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html