40. Use 7 characters in the hash for github references
40. Use 7 characters in the hash for github references
Section titled “40. Use 7 characters in the hash for github references”Date: 2020-05-19
Status
Section titled “Status”Accepted
Context
Section titled “Context”Originally we defaulted to using 10 characters for the githash shas to be able to reference specific versions of the softward.
There are places where we want to use the decimal version of the SHA (namely ios and android stores for versions).
The 10 place SHA ends up being too big a number for them.
Decision
Section titled “Decision”We decided to change all scripts to use 7 instead of 10. It should still be sufficient to find the unique version that was uses.
Consequences
Section titled “Consequences”Now we can use decimal versions of the 7 length SHA for ios and android app versions.