From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:23:09 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Added caveat about using short bug names to unique_name().
X-Git-Tag: 1.0.0~170
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f1356144841ff5fb8b9cd7a3525725271803807b;p=be.git

Added caveat about using short bug names to unique_name().
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diff --git a/libbe/cmdutil.py b/libbe/cmdutil.py
index cc2b60f..5c9f5b1 100644
--- a/libbe/cmdutil.py
+++ b/libbe/cmdutil.py
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ def unique_name(bug, bugs):
     Generate short names from uuids.  Picks the minimum number of
     characters (>=3) from the beginning of the uuid such that the
     short names are unique.
+    
+    Obviously, as the number of bugs in the database grows, these
+    short names will cease to be unique.  The complete uuid should be
+    used for long term reference.
     """
     chars = 3
     for some_bug in bugs: