libgit2

git_oid_shorten_new

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Create a new OID shortener.

The OID shortener is used to process a list of OIDs in text form and return the shortest length that would uniquely identify all of them.

E.g. look at the result of git log --abbrev.

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git_oid_shorten *git_oid_shorten_new(size_t min_length);

Parameters

size_t
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min_length

The minimal length for all identifiers, which will be used even if shorter OIDs would still be unique.

Returns

git_oid_shorten *

a git_oid_shorten instance, NULL if OOM

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