Re: [PATCH 10/13] Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format"
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:58:30
Thomas Ackermann [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <redacted> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index f713f26..aa6bfab 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt@@ -4132,8 +4132,6 @@ about the data in the object. It's worth noting that the SHA-1 hash that is used to name the object is the hash of the original data plus this header, so `sha1sum` 'file' does not match the object name for 'file'. -(Historical note: in the dawn of the age of Git the hash -was the SHA-1 of the 'compressed' object.)
As we no longer are able to read such a historical object, I think it is OK to drop the historical note in this particular case. Thanks.
As a result, the general consistency of an object can always be tested independently of the contents or the type of the object: all objects can