1569025 - accept shorter rev hashes than 40 characters

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tree Management :: Perfherder, enhancement)

Description

[Steve Fink [:sfink] [:s:]]

My normal case: I'm looking at a push on treeherder and want to compare it to another baseline push, also on treeherder. I cut & paste the baseline's revision hash, then click on the comparison link for my push, click the "enter a revision" checkbox, then paste in my baseline rev. It rejects it for being too short.

I get unhappy, go back to the baseline, click on the revision to go to hg.mozilla.org, cut & paste the 40-char revision id, and switch back to the comparison tab. It works, but it's a pain. And I suspect some people don't know a good way to find the full rev hash.

The 12 char one should be good enough.

Comment 1

[Ionuț Goldan [:igoldan]]

Technically speaking, we have multiple reasons to exclusively use the full commit hash and discard the shorter one wherever we find it.
The main problem we have here is quickly getting this full hash.

Bug 1553734 will make that happen even faster, as it'll add in an intuitive one click operation.
My suggestion: once bug 1553734 lands, close this as WONTFIX.