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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git files data formats documentation
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:43:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb3ad8$fq6$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 44D4FC52.6030807@gmail.com

A Large Angry SCM wrote:

> Jakub Narebski wrote:

>> I do wonder why there is <OCTAL_MODE> (and not <BINARY_OCTAL_MODE>) 
>> but <BINARY_OBJ_ID> (and not <HEX_OBJ_ID>).
>> 
> 
> <OCTAL_MODE> because it's an ASCII string. <BINARY_OBJ_ID> because it's 
> the 20 byte digest.

I meant why git use ASCII string for octal mode, while using 20 byte digest
for object-id in tree format. More consistent would be use binary and
binary, or ASCII and ASCII (i.e. <HEX_OBJ_ID>).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-05 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-05  5:39 Git files data formats documentation A Large Angry SCM
2006-08-05  5:48 ` Jon Smirl
2006-08-05  6:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-05 19:30   ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-05 21:56   ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-08-06  0:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-08-05 16:22 ` Shawn Pearce
2006-08-05 17:31   ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-08-05 18:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-08-05 20:15   ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-08-05 23:43     ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-08-05 22:35 ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-08-16 16:55   ` Nicolas Pitre

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