Subject: Re: webgit highlightes mem adresses as git versions

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:54:20 -0800 (PST)

Toralf Förster <[email-masked]> writes:

> As seen here 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=8ca2918f99b5861359de1805f27b08023c82abd2 
> the strings [<c043d0f3>] and firends shouldn't be recognized as git hashes, 
> isn't it ?

Gitweb, not webgit.  And gitweb considers ([0-9a-fA-F]{8,40}) i.e.
from 8 to 40 hexadecimal characters to be (shortened) SHA-1.  It
simply cannot afford checking if such object exists when displaying
commit message (for example in 'log' view).

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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