Sam Vilain <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think if you're going to go so short as 6 digits, it's probably worth > making sure that the really short SHA1s check commits only. eg, if > you've got a commit 'fa023473' and a tree 'fa023421', then 'fa0234' > should match the commit and not the tree. But I don't think there's a > plumbing way to do a query like that at the moment. When people give an abbreviated object name, 99% of the time they mean commits (and "index deadbeef..acebead" in a patch is a good place to pick blob object names from, which would be what the 99% of the remaining 1% would name), so making sure it is a commit or a blob would be a very sensible thing to do. Unfortunately, you fundamentally cannot do this without taking a performance hit of actually opening the object. -- 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
