From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:19:50 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: check_fixes: supply advice about short SHA1 abbrevs
X-Git-Url: https://git.ozlabs.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=e81b3701b03a70e546fe509b71048087d58f6ca3;p=next-scripts

check_fixes: supply advice about short SHA1 abbrevs
---

diff --git a/check_fixes b/check_fixes
index 34576ce..46a0b37 100755
--- a/check_fixes
+++ b/check_fixes
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ has these problem(s):
 		fi
 
 		if [ "${#sha}" -lt 12 ]; then
-			msg="${msg:+${msg}${nl}}  - SHA1 should be at least 12 digits long"
+			msg="${msg:+${msg}${nl}}  - SHA1 should be at least 12 digits long${nl}    Can be fixed by setting core.abbrev to 12 (or more) or (for git v2.11${nl}    or later) just making sure it is not set (or set to \"auto\")."
 		fi
 		# reduce the subject to the part between () if there
 		if [[ "$subject" =~ ^\((.*)\) ]]; then