On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 04:39:02PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > I stated it wrongly. What I was getting at was that we might > > want to consider an abbreviation that matches only a single > > commit unambiguous even when there are ambiguous objects of > > other kinds. > > Maybe. But by the time your object hash distribution starts showing > ambiguous objects with a given abbreviated name between a commit and a > non commit, I'll bet you'll start to see ambiguities between commits > soon enough as well. Isn't the number of objects an order of magnitude bigger than the number of commits? Well, I guess that depends on your workflow... OG. - 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