Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Relax commit ID check to allow more than 12 chars

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Joe,

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 12:09 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 09:38 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 5:59 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2023-01-29 at 09:52 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2023-01-29 at 13:34 +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> > > > > By now, `git log --pretty=%h` (on my copy of linux.git) prints commit
> > > > > hashes with 13 digits, because of the number of objects.
> > > > >
> > > > > Relax the rule in checkpatch.pl to allow a few more digits (up to 16).
> > > >
> > > > NAK without updating the process docs first.
> > >
> > > btw: it looks like 12 will still be sufficient for awhile yet
> > >
> > > $ git count
> > > total 1154908
> >
> > Hmm, Ubuntu git too old?
>
> Don't think so
>
> $ git --version
> git version 2.39.1

Exactly, Ubuntu 22.04LTS only has

$ git --version
git version 2.34.1

i.e. no git count.

> > I've been using core.abbrev=16 for a while, and some maintainers
> > reject my patches with Fixes: tags because of that...
>
> Perhaps because that's not the documented format?

Right.  I look a lot at history, and don't want to become slowed down
by ambiguous Fixes: tags anytime soon (or later).

> > Is it really worthwhile to save on the number of hexits, making lookup
> > of some commits more inconvenient?
> >
> > Note that while "git show edb9b8" suggests edb9b8f[...],
> > gitweb says bad object id:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=edb9b8
>
> hmm.  Not here.
>
> $ git show edb9b8
> tree edb9b8

Yeah, I also have that tree object.  But I don't want to see the tree
object; I want to see the commit object, which is in v6.2-rc7:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=edb9b8f

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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