Re: [PATCH 1/2] INSTALL: Update description of our SHA-1 code
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:47:22
Brian Gernhardt [off-list ref] writes:
We haven't had Mozilla's code or an ARM optimized algorithm since 30ae47b. Reword the paragraph to give credit but not authorship to Mozilla.
Thanks.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <redacted> --- Minor nit I noticed while in the INSTALL file. INSTALL | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index ae7f750..4a57e47 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ Issues of note: library from here. If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries - that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has - its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile). + that come with git (git includes one based on Mozilla's as well + as a PowerPC optimized one - see the Makefile).
The leading comment in block/sha1.c says "initially based on ... although none of the original remains." "one loosely based on" or "one inspired by" might be a more fair statement, although I do not feel too strongly about it.
- libcurl library; git-http-fetch and git-fetch use them. You might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes. -- 1.6.4.2.420.g30ecf