Re: checking sha1's of files

[Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>]

> If you want to know whether a file matches HEAD, just do:
>
>  git diff --quiet HEAD -- $LIST_OF_FILES
>
> which will return '0' for no changes or '1' if there are changes.

*headdesks* and somehow I think this is exactly what I need.

> Which really has nothing to do with hashes at all (though git will use
> them internally to avoid actually running a textual diff at all).  I was
> assuming that you didn't necessarily _have_ the git repository at
> verification time. So the hash becomes an easy way of saying "this is
> what the file _should_ look like".

I love git because it's so powerful, just like the rest of *nix. No
matter how long I use it something always makes me feel like a n00b.

the problem is that I only half understand what git is doing, just
enough to attempt a communication of what I want to do. It doesn't
help that I'm not the expert on the other side of this problem either.

thanks for the help guys, even if I do come off like a moron.
-- 
Caleb Cushing

http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com