On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:53:50PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > I believe that the OP was more inconvenienced that "git rev-parse > --short" chokes on multiple objects than by the fact that it insists > that the objects exist. (And shortening the SHA1s of non-existent > objects doesn't sound very useful anyway.) So I think that a useful > compromise would be for "git rev-parse --short" to accept multiple args > but continue to insist that each of the args is a valid object. Part of the guarantee of "--verify" is that it returns a single object. I don't know how many callers rely on "--short" implying "--verify" implying a single object. I agree in practice it would probably be an OK change, and it's very easy to do. I just don't think it's an important enough problem to worry about, given the available workaround. But if you want to write the patch, be my guest. :) -Peff -- 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