On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 08:12:13PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

This is a preliminary RFC patch series to move all the relevant uses of
unsigned char [20] to struct object_id.  It should not be applied to any
branch yet.

The goal of this series to improve type-checking in the codebase and to
make it easier to move to a different hash function if the project
decides to do that.  This series does not convert all of the codebase,
but only parts.  I'm looking for feedback to see if there is consensus
that this is the right direction before investing a large amount of
time.

I would like to point out that to get something with as few calls as
hashclr converted to use struct object_id requires an insane amount of
work, because often major parts of several files have to be converted
first.  So the list should be aware that this will likely be an
extensive series, although it is bisectable, so it could theoretically
be done in batches.

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