Github Group

[Craig Treleaven]

At 2:17 PM -0600 1/16/13, Sean Farley wrote:
>I wanted to revisit and close this ticket I started almost a year ago:
>
>https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33889
>
>I think it'll suffice to check for a tarball download + an empty tag
>prefix + len(version) > 12. A hash can be looked up at any length as
>long as it's match is unique, therefore the length of 12 is a soft
>requirement. I didn't pull it out of thin air, though; it's from an
>early version of git / mercurial of making 12 a lower bound until
>better algorithms arose.
>
>Does this sound ok? If so, then I can commit my changes and close the ticket.

Hi Sean:

My mythtv-core.25 and mythweb.25 ports use 8 character short hashs. 
The Myth project commonly refers to commits using just 8 chars.  It 
would make my life simpler if I didn't have to tack on the extra 4.

Craig
(BTW, I'm one of the very few who use less than the full 40!!)