Re: [PATCH] [4.8-rc7, regression] fault_in_multipages_readable() throws set-but-unused error

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi all,

On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 20:06:19 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> exactly like you did.  It's just that with 12 characters in the hex
> format, people will still be able to cut-and-paste the hash into git
> to get the full commit details even a year from now. With just 7 hex
> digits, you may well end up in the situation where you do
> 
>     git show e23d415
> 
> and git says
> 
>     error: short SHA1 e23d415 is ambiguous.
>     fatal: ambiguous argument 'e23d415': unknown revision or path not
> in the working tree.
> 
> (it's not ambiguous today, but in a year or two it quite possibly will be).

I have already had over the years a few instances of 7 digit commit
hashes that are unique in Linus' tree but not in mine (which is a bit
of a pain if you are trying to look for context).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell