Re: git name-rev not accepting abbreviated SHA with --stdin

2015-07-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com writes: On 06/25/2015 05:41 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@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

Re: git name-rev not accepting abbreviated SHA with --stdin

2015-07-03 Thread Junio C Hamano
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com wrote: Jokes apart, I'm not sure the chances of *both* those things happening -- an accidental hash-like string in the text *and* it matching an existing hash -- are high enough to bother. If it can be done without too much

Re: git name-rev not accepting abbreviated SHA with --stdin

2015-07-03 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On 07/03/2015 11:06 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com writes: On 06/25/2015 05:41 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com writes: This *is* documented, but I'm curious why this distinction is made. I think it is from mere laziness, and

Re: git name-rev not accepting abbreviated SHA with --stdin

2015-06-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@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

Re: git name-rev not accepting abbreviated SHA with --stdin

2015-06-24 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On 06/25/2015 05:41 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@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

git name-rev not accepting abbreviated SHA with --stdin

2015-06-23 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
Hi all, git name-rev does not accept abbreviated SHAs if --stdin is used, though it works when the SHA is given directly on the command line: $ git version git version 2.4.3 $ git name-rev --tags d73f544 d73f544 tags/v3.6.3~29 $ git name-rev --tags --stdin d73f544