Four rules for effective collaboration – Guidelines for better commits

Re:Four rules for effective collaboration – Guidelines for b... by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @09:41AM (#16536647)

7 characters should be enough for most repos, and iirc git can deal with collisions already (so git co 1536dd9 in your example would bring a prompt).

How many commits is the repo you're running this on btw?

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Re:Four rules for effective collaboration – Guidelines for b... by pleasecalllater on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @12:31PM (#16538017)

Sure. And randomly generated UUIDs should not conflict... unless they do, and blow up a huge app in production. Yes, I have experienced that once.

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Re:Four rules for effective collaboration – Guidelines for b... by msingle on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:19AM (#16542466)

the odds of truly randomly generated UUID's conflicting are .... really really low (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...). If you had a collision, then the odds are truly opposed to anyone else ever having that problem in the foreseeable future, so thanks for taking the hit for the rest of us!

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