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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git files data formats documentation
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:43:19 +0200
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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>).

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Jakub Narebski
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