On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > For some time (currently with 2.9.0) know see that a single commit > gives a longer hash than necessary, even though there is no > ambiguity: > > ?0[steffen@wales ]$ git longca| > awk 'BEGIN{l7=0;l8=0}\ > /^[[:alnum:]]{7} /{++l7;next}\ > /^[[:alnum:]]{8} /{++l8;print}\ > END{print "L7 " l7 " L8 " l8}' > 786d0c9c [mimepipe.2] send.c:sendpart(): force iconv(3)+ for TEXT part handlers.. > L7 3364 L8 1 I don't know what your "git longca" alias is, but presumably it's running "git log". That will show just _commit_ hashes, but the abbreviation code will consider all objects. There are some places you can use an abbreviated sha1 that know they are looking for a commit, but most places will generally complain if there is ambiguity between a blob and commit (e.g., "git show $foo"). It's also presumably just traversing HEAD, so it would miss commits on other branches. > ?0[steffen@wales ]$ git long|cut -f1 -d' '|grep ^786 > 786d0c9c > 786f219 Try "git rev-list --objects --all | grep ^786d0c9". -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