Re: Meaning of two commit-ish hash in git diff

[Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com>]

Thanks Philip,

On 11/01/2017 08:27 AM, Philip Oakley wrote:
> Yubin ,
> 
> From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
>> Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> diff --git a/path/somefile b/path/somefile
>>> index f8886b4..a1c96df 100644
>>> --- a/path/somefile
>>> +++ b/path/somefile
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> This is output by a `git diff` between two adjacent commits but they are
>>> not any commit hash. I grep through the whole $(git log) but still cannot
>>> find those hash.
>>
>> The f8886b4 you see on the left is the name of the blob object on
>> the left hand side of the comparison that produced this output;
>> similarly a1c96df is the name of the blob object on the right hand
>> side of the comparison.
>>
>> IOW, if you have the contents of the blob whose object name is
>> f8886b4, by applying this patch, you will get a blob whose object
>> name is a1c96df.
>>
>> The information is used by "git am -3" when the patch does not apply
>> cleanly to fall back to the 3-way merge.
> 
> The ability to 'git describe` those blob object IDs is currently the subject of a patch series
> https://public-inbox.org/git/20171031211852.13001-1-sbeller@google.com/
> 
> Maybe see if would have helped ;-)

What would be other use case of the blob object / blob name ?

Yubin