Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > How are you proposing to verify master~12 in that example? Because > during parsing, it starts with "master", and we remember that? By not cheating (i.e. using get_sha1()), but making sure you can parse "master" and the adornment on it "~12" is something sane. That is why I said "this is harder than one would naively think, but limiting will make it significantly easier". I didn't say that it would become "trivial", did I? -- 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