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>>>>> "NH" == Niklas Hoglund <nhoglund@gmail.com> writes:

NH> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:35:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> :000000 100644 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 25ab9eda939ad92bb746c2419d083b1e52117a56	diffcore-pathspec.c	diffcore-pathspec.c

NH> Don't you think it would be easier to read if the SHA1 field was, say, a
NH> dash and 19 spaces, instead of an obviously bogus SHA1?

My understanding of the purpose of the diff-raw format is
primarily about machine readablility; 0{40} was far easier to
code cleanly---please see why in diff-helper.c.