Re: Maintaining a list of pgindent commits for "git blame" to ignore - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 03:46:10PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> It's worth noting that git insists that you provide the full hash of
> commits here. This is not something I remember it insisting upon in
> any other area. There is probably a very good practical reason for
> that.

Probably because later commits might collide with shorter hashes.  When
you are reporting a hash that only looks _backward_, this is not an
issue.

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