linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the xfs tree

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Message-ID: <20190129234338.GF4205@dastard>
Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:43:38 +1100
From:   Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the xfs tree

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 10:06:40AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:08:02 +1100 Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> >
> > Might be worth adding this to the boiler plate code:
> > 
> > 	This can be fixed by adding the following to your ~/.gitconfig file:
> > 
> > 	[core]
> > 		abbrev = 12
> 
> Actually, since git v2.11 (released Nov 29, 2016), abbrev = auto (which
> is the default) means that the default scales with the size of the
> repository.  For Linus' tree, that currently produces 12 digit commit
> SHA1 abbreviations, but will probably soon become 13.  So the best
> currently, is to *not* set core.abbrev (or set it to something above 12
> (for future robustness).
> 
> See
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181220000112.24891-1-avarab@gmail.com/

.... and in replying to correct me demonstrates the exact point I
was making - that documenting what configuration should be used to
avoid the warning acheives far more than just reporting an error.

i.e. all those people who /don't follow git development/ and have
working configs that pre-date the "auto mode" or it being made
the default now know the correct way to configure their repository.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com