From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: shawn wilson Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:24:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7vvc78u8jl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Apr 27 04:24:54 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UVuon-0003KN-JK for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Apr 2013 04:24:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756655Ab3D0CY3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:24:29 -0400 Received: from mail-ve0-f174.google.com ([209.85.128.174]:33068 "EHLO mail-ve0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752025Ab3D0CY2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:24:28 -0400 Received: by mail-ve0-f174.google.com with SMTP id b10so2162831vea.33 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:24:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=g+BGSowf2+1GoXOmx9O1ofjN+BRbkg72TcnEeReXNp8=; b=jgMssaWDp5sSKziifb9PUb3Ghxx04S4gIQtyFLQVSTZbNPwVMm022rRcBB/JMoV4FJ DtP3s9QzL/ONBi6OSG5OXABH4JVfJe8fWv9vafZRwBm6TroJPrxd1Z+S0sWH533JCfsM a+ZRkbbLaUVF3OwZ0ig4sLIBRneFa/hpX4pm05YHmmRNMBpECww1vJMpylfPGT13N/Mg vh46W1hupZVDV95BtbL64MRukThbDoh2+mOOELMVZvu7bS5UGCZpusYHpwUXJ7m0fJoV hsSIFIXVx9ROJwX6XszYayzMZUJrSmOJQ9S7QvYoo+/P/CFbkAN2xbmanJHGZmcD1YoG AkMg== X-Received: by 10.52.76.41 with SMTP id h9mr1101953vdw.12.1367029467916; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.103.14 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:24:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vvc78u8jl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from > outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while > making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object} > can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify". > What does this mean / what is the reason behind this? I can only think it might be useful in a test suite to make sure git isn't doing anything stupid with hashes...?