On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 22:51, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Keep in mind that each hex character you add increases the search space > by a factor of 16. deadbeef took about 70 seconds to find on my machine. > I'm tempted to look for "3133700..0031337", but it would probably > take about 4 hours. Heh, there's one other practical downside I can think of... If you create a bunch of commits with the same 8-hex-character prefix then suddenly the "git describe" logic for using the first 7 commit ID characters gets a whole lot less useful. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- Curious about my work on the Debian powerpcspe port? I'm keeping a blog here: http://pureperl.blogspot.com/ -- 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