From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail•com>
Cc: "git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git name-rev not accepting abbreviated SHA with --stdin
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:11:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsi9g8x51.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558A2405.2090709@gmail.com> (Sitaram Chamarty's message of "Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:59:09 +0530")
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail•com> writes:
> This *is* documented, but I'm curious why this distinction is made.
I think it is from mere laziness, and also in a smaller degree
coming from an expectation that --stdin would be fed by another
script like rev-list where feeding full 40-hex is less work than
feeding unique abbreviated prefix.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-25 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-24 3:29 git name-rev not accepting abbreviated SHA with --stdin Sitaram Chamarty
2015-06-25 0:11 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-06-25 2:01 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2015-07-03 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-04 1:26 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2015-07-04 2:03 ` Junio C Hamano
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