Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 06/25/2015 05:41 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> This *is* documented, but I'm curious why this distinction is made. >> >> I think it is from mere laziness, and also in a smaller degree >> coming from an expectation that --stdin would be fed by another >> script like rev-list where feeding full 40-hex is less work than >> feeding unique abbreviated prefix. > > Makes sense; thanks. Maybe if I feel really adventurous I will, > one day, look at the code :-) Sorry, but I suspect this is not 100% laziness; it is meant to read text that has object names sprinkled in and output text with object names substituted. I suspect that this was done to prevent a short string that may look like an object name like deadbabe from getting converted into an unrelated commit object name. -- 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