Here I merely repeat "The minimum length is 4." from another part of the page. However I do it in a critical spot, else users will think that there is just no dress code for how short one's strings can be. Proof: only the last line of: git init touch z git add z git cat-file -t e git cat-file -t e6 git cat-file -t e69 git cat-file -t e69d will finally output "blob". Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt index 2921da3..8a4cdfc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ blobs contained in a commit. E.g. dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735 and dae86e both name the same commit object if there are no other object in your repository whose object name starts with dae86e. + The minimum length is 4. * An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a -- 1.6.0.6 -- 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