On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:15:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I wonder if there is a good way to warn that we have multiple matches. > > Of course we expect many _exact_ matches if the author has multiple > > commits, but we could look for distinct matches. However, even that will > > turn up false positives, since some authors have multiple email > > addresses. > > In order to prove unique match you would need an exhaustive check, don't > you? Yes, though you also do exhaustive check in the worst case already (when the name doesn't match anything). It takes about .7s on a warm cache on my git.git. Anyway, I think it is already not a good idea because of the semantics, let alone the performance. -Peff PS Your message also didn't go to git@vger, so I think you are having the same problem with Michael's message that I am. -- 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
