On 10/16/17 07:46, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
The first 7 digits may, or may not be sufficient. 7 is a magic number, and should not be used. You should, instead, ask git directly what the abbreviation should be with, for instance, `git log --abbrev-commit`. It may give you a number that seven digits long, but it may very well give you a longer one. I repeat, do not simply truncate a hash to its first 7 digits, it may not be enough.
`git log --abbrev-commit` solution has two shortcomings. It only protects against preexisting hash collisions and not from future collisions. So, the port's fetch can still spontaneously fail in the future as a result of a future commit that introduces a collision. Secondly, it requires the manual clone of the repository which is inconvenient. IMO, it's more practical to just use 7 digits, and switch to the full hash in an unlikely event when 7 digits fail. So far, this method virtually always worked. Yuri _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
