Re: [PATCH] name-rev: update hash descriptions

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>]

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On 2026-09-27 at 19:46:02, jyotish kumar wrote:
> The documentation for --annotate-stdin and --name-only refers to
> SHA-1, although name-rev handles object IDs according to the active
> hash algorithm.
> 
> Update the descriptions to refer to object IDs instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: jyotish kumar <jyotishkumar725015@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-name-rev.adoc | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.adoc b/Documentation/git-name-rev.adoc
> index d4f1c4d594..9837fe59b3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-name-rev.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.adoc
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS
>  	List all commits reachable from all refs
>  
>  --annotate-stdin::
> -	Transform stdin by substituting all the 40-character SHA-1
> +	Transform stdin by substituting all the full-length object ID
>  	hexes (say $hex) with "$hex ($rev_name)".  When used with
>  	--name-only, substitute with "$rev_name", omitting $hex
>  	altogether. This option was called `--stdin` in older versions
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ while its tree object is 70d105cc79e63b81cfdcb08a15297c23e60b07ad
>  -----------
>  
>  --name-only::
> -	Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only
> +	Instead of printing both the object ID and the name, print only
>  	the name.  If given with --tags the usual tag prefix of
>  	"tags/" is also omitted from the name, matching the output
>  	of `git-describe` more closely.

This looks much better.  I didn't see any other instances of "SHA-1" in
the documentation or "40", so this looks complete.
-- 
brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA

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