From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>,
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why SHA are 40 bytes? (aka looking for flames)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:46:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <462D5370.8040905@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704220925420.28339@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> Object names aren't 40 bytes. They are 20 bytes.
> It is their hex representation that takes 40 bytes.
>
Sure, but that's the way they're stored in *most* git objects, in
particular in commit objects.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-24 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-21 13:35 Why SHA are 40 bytes? (aka looking for flames) Marco Costalba
2007-04-21 15:08 ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-21 16:53 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-04-21 17:09 ` Marco Costalba
2007-04-21 16:58 ` Marco Costalba
2007-04-21 15:37 ` Jon Smirl
2007-04-21 17:06 ` Marco Costalba
2007-04-21 17:59 ` Jon Smirl
2007-04-21 18:28 ` Marco Costalba
2007-04-21 19:36 ` Jon Smirl
2007-04-24 14:48 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-04-24 15:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-24 15:18 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-04-24 16:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-22 13:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-24 0:46 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-24 2:30 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-24 2:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
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