Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. > Yeah. I envisioned this just for those cases where the tool would otherwise return 'ambiguous argument'; if there was a hint as to the object type, open *all* the matching objects and return the one that matched the type only. Sam. -- 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
