On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 07:33:30PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Hi Sasha,
On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 5:19 PM Sasha Levin wrote:
No, it's not a problem. In my mind, I figured we could use shorter
hashes in mail message to make it easier to communicate.
It doesn't have to be formal, but for ex
Hi Sasha,
On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 5:19 PM Sasha Levin wrote:
> No, it's not a problem. In my mind, I figured we could use shorter
> hashes in mail message to make it easier to communicate.
>
> It doesn't have to be formal, but for example if we exchange mails about
> an issue, and I end up referr
On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 05:50:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 at 16:55, Sasha Levin wrote:
What got me worried originally is the example Kees provided which
creates a collision of a 12-character abbreviated commit ID:
Note that you can always create short ambiguous case
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 at 16:55, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> What got me worried originally is the example Kees provided which
> creates a collision of a 12-character abbreviated commit ID:
Note that you can always create short ambiguous cases.
And in fact, since the way you create them is to just put n
On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 03:33:36PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 at 14:33, Sasha Levin wrote:
Which means that folks should be able to use a fairly short abbreviated
commit IDs in messages, specially for commits with a long subject line.
So I don't think we should take thi
On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 at 14:33, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> Which means that folks should be able to use a fairly short abbreviated
> commit IDs in messages, specially for commits with a long subject line.
So I don't think we should take this as a way to make *shorter* IDs,
just as a way to accept histo
On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 05:05:55PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
This also allows users to use shorter commit ID prefixes than normally
required, since we can correctly identify the intended commit using the
subject line as additional context.
With this script, and a git alias:
git config
