Hi Philip, On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, Philip Oakley wrote: > From: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> > > > > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > > Almost. While I fixed the performance issues as well as the design > > > > allowed, I happened to "fix" the problem where an incomplete > > > > prefix match could be favored over an exact match. > > > > > > Hmph. Would it require too much further work to do what you said > > > the code does: > > > > I was just being overly precise. I *did* fix the problem. But since it > > was not my intention, I quoted the verb "fix". > > > > > > The rebase--helper code (specifically, the patch moving autosquash > > > > logic into it: https://github.com/dscho/git/commit/7d0831637f) tries > > > > to match exact onelines first, and falls back to prefix matching only > > > > after that. > > > > > > If the code matches exact onlines and then falls back to prefix, I do > > > not think incomplete prefix would be mistakenly chosen over an exact > > > one, so perhaps your code already does the right thing? > > > > The code does exactly that. It does even more: as `fixup! <SHA-1>` is > > allowed (for SHA-1s that have been mentioned in previous `pick` lines), it > > tries to match that before falling back to the incomplete prefix match. > > Now just the doc update to do.... ;-) Right. I finally managed to work that in, and will send out v2 (is it only the second iteration? ... wow...) as soon as the test suite passes on Windows (which will take a bit over an hour, as you know). Ciao, Dscho