On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 23:28, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Bert Wesarg" <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 21:10, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ... >>> You can still get ambiguous names. Avoiding them requires going >>> through all refs and building their short forms, then using the >>> full ref name for any ref which had more than one name shorten to >>> the same string. Ugly, but implementable, and probably something >>> that should be considered. >> >> What about: try the list backwards until the first match, than try the >> matched part (this what %.*s matched) with the forward list, if both >> give the same pattern, its not disambiguous. If not try the next >> pattern backwards. > > How does it catch the case where you have both 'xyzzy' branch and 'xyzzy' > tag, which is the point of disambiguation issue Shawn raised? Right. -- 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
