Subject: Re: Ambiguous sha-1 during a rebase

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:24:07 +0200

Mike Hommey <[email-masked]> writes:

> Yeah, that definitely is a weird corner case. Interestingly, it was
> complaining about "error: short SHA1 e34ff55 is ambiguous." when apply
> *other* commits that were in the list prior to it,

I think it did before: when normalizing the list to long sha1, i.e.
right after you closed your editor and befor starting anything else.

> That said, that would be less likely to happen if disambiguation was
> also checking checking the object type. Collisions between commits are
> less likely than between objects of different types.

Right.

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