Message-ID: <3afee0493d3718f2e38b6c54dab23d38360cd5d0.camel@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Relax commit ID check to allow more than
 12 chars
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Jonathan =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Neusch=E4fer?= <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 04 Feb 2023 08:57:59 -0800
In-Reply-To: <78d224a63f6c27bf700d59007b6f3c89746d728c.camel@perches.com>
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On Sun, 2023-01-29 at 09:52 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-01-29 at 13:34 +0100, Jonathan Neusch?fer 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
$ git -c core.abbrev=5 log --pretty=format:%h | \
  perl -nE 'chomp;say length' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -k2
    198 5
 664613 6
 450955 7
  36667 8
   2312 9
    155 10
      8 11