From e0b6ad287043ec4f2b8eeb08b6c28f6a42e5b782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 04:07:26 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Revision selection: Couple minor clarifications and updates Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day --- book/07-git-tools/sections/revision-selection.asc | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/book/07-git-tools/sections/revision-selection.asc b/book/07-git-tools/sections/revision-selection.asc index 9139265e4..21039787d 100644 --- a/book/07-git-tools/sections/revision-selection.asc +++ b/book/07-git-tools/sections/revision-selection.asc @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ [[_revision_selection]] === Revision Selection -Git allows you to refer to a set of commits or a range of commits in several ways. +Git allows you to refer to a single commit, set of commits, or range of commits in a number of ways. They aren't necessarily obvious but are helpful to know. ==== Single Revisions @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ a11bef0 first commit ---- Generally, eight to ten characters are more than enough to be unique within a project. -For example, as of June 2018, the Linux kernel (which is a fairly sizable project) has over 700,000 commits and almost six and a half million objects in its object database, with no two objects whose SHA-1s are identical in the first 11 characters. +For example, as of February 2019, the Linux kernel (which is a fairly sizable project) has over 875,000 commits and almost seven million objects in its object database, with no two objects whose SHA-1s are identical in the first 12 characters. [NOTE] .A SHORT NOTE ABOUT SHA-1