Am 3/8/2012 12:41, schrieb Dominique Quatravaux: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Dominique Quatravaux <domq@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Am 3/8/2012 11:42, schrieb Dominique Quatravaux: >>>> + shortsha1=$(echo $sha1 | cut -c1-7) >>> >>>> - sha1=$(git rev-parse $shortsha1) >>> >>> Why do you call it "optimization" when you spend two or three subprocesses >>> instead of one? >> >> echo is a shell internal. "git rev-parse" is two processes just as >> "cut" and a pipe. > > My mistake, strace git rev-parse revals that this is only one process. > Still, I think that saving a bunch of filesystem access beats saving > one fork()... Not so on Windows. But you must look at the repository in any case to avoid truncating the SHA1 too much, as Thomas pointed out. -- Hannes -- 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