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-tip: origin tree build failure

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Junio C Hamano Oct. 28, 2010, 9:39 p.m. UTC 
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Yes. Except for the kernel the default git commit abbreviation is
> borderline too short. Seven hex-chars can easily alias with a few more
> pulls from me: git will not give aliases at the time it gives a
> shorthand, but a month or two later the abbreviated commit may no
> longer be unique.
>
> So I suggest using --abbrev=12 or similar.

Would a new configuration to specify how many more letters to ensure the
uniqueness at the time of generation make sense?

By the way, I noticed that you started sending patches as attachments
lately.  What made you change your mind?

 Documentation/config.txt |    9 +++++++++
 cache.h                  |    1 +
 config.c                 |    7 +++++++
 environment.c            |    1 +
 sha1_name.c              |    4 +++-
 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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Linus Torvalds Oct. 28, 2010, 9:50 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> By the way, I noticed that you started sending patches as attachments
> lately.  What made you change your mind?

Nothing. I still hate them. But the tools I use (web interface to
gmail) are broken in this respect. There's no way to include a file,
or specify that an attachement should be inlined. And don't tell me
about IMAP - if I wanted to use IMAP, I'd be living in a padded cell.

I have a deep love/hate relationship with gmail. Many things make it
wonderful, and I'm not regretting the switch (which was initially just
a trial while traveling).

But it has two issues that I absolutely detest:
 (a) the idiotic inability to inline attachements and
 (b) the android gmail app is a total piece of shit and cannot even do
simple text messages. Crazy.
(there are other small annoyances, but they are smallish in comparison
to the above big honking bugs)

Does anybody know anybody who works on the google mail clients and
could raise these as bugs inside google?

                             Linus
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Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 538ebb5..6994338 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -374,6 +374,15 @@  core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
 	If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
 	and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default.
 
+core.abbrevguard::
+	Even though git makes sure that it uses enough hexdigits to show
+	an abbreviated object name unambiguously, as more objects are
+	added to the repository over time, a short name that used to be
+	unique will stop being unique.  Git uses this many extra hexdigits
+	that are more than necessary to make the object name currently
+	unique, in the hope that its output will stay unique a bit longer.
+	Defaults to 0.
+
 core.compression::
 	An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
 	-1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 33decd9..931fb59 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -545,6 +545,7 @@  extern int assume_unchanged;
 extern int prefer_symlink_refs;
 extern int log_all_ref_updates;
 extern int warn_ambiguous_refs;
+extern int unique_abbrev_extra_length;
 extern int shared_repository;
 extern const char *apply_default_whitespace;
 extern const char *apply_default_ignorewhitespace;
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 4b0a820..1aa72c2 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -489,6 +489,13 @@  static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.abbrevguard")) {
+		unique_abbrev_extra_length = git_config_int(var, value);
+		if (unique_abbrev_extra_length < 0)
+			unique_abbrev_extra_length = 0;
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	if (!strcmp(var, "core.bare")) {
 		is_bare_repository_cfg = git_config_bool(var, value);
 		return 0;
diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c
index de5581f..92e16b1 100644
--- a/environment.c
+++ b/environment.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@  int prefer_symlink_refs;
 int is_bare_repository_cfg = -1; /* unspecified */
 int log_all_ref_updates = -1; /* unspecified */
 int warn_ambiguous_refs = 1;
+int unique_abbrev_extra_length;
 int repository_format_version;
 const char *git_commit_encoding;
 const char *git_log_output_encoding;
diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 484081d..4a226ad 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -206,7 +206,9 @@  const char *find_unique_abbrev(const unsigned char *sha1, int len)
 		if (exists
 		    ? !status
 		    : status == SHORT_NAME_NOT_FOUND) {
-			hex[len] = 0;
+			int cut_at = len + unique_abbrev_extra_length;
+			cut_at = (cut_at < 40) ? cut_at : 40;
+			hex[cut_at] = 0;
 			return hex;
 		}
 		len++;