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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor•de>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, wking@tremily•us
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format"
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 20:28:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeh9imotd.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339924016.1091137.1377329596491.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail08.arcor-online.net> (Thomas Ackermann's message of "Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:33:16 +0200 (CEST)")

Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor•de> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor•de>
> ---
>  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

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-25  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-24  7:22 [PATCH 0/13] Modernize user-manual Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-24  7:24 ` [PATCH 01/13] Call it "Git User Manual" and remove reference to very old Git version Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:05   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-25  3:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-24  7:25 ` [PATCH 02/13] Use current "detached HEAD" message Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:49   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-25  8:10     ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-24  7:26 ` [PATCH 03/13] Use current output for "git repack" Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  4:15   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-25  8:37     ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-24  7:27 ` [PATCH 04/13] Use "git merge" instead of "git pull ." Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-25  4:19   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-25  5:26     ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2013-08-24  7:28 ` [PATCH 05/13] Fix some typos Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  5:01   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-25  9:13     ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-24  7:29 ` [PATCH 06/13] Simplify "How to make a commit" Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:20   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-25  5:05   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-25  9:20     ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-24  7:30 ` [PATCH 07/13] Improve description in "How to merge" Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:22   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-25  5:08   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-25 11:31     ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-24  7:31 ` [PATCH 08/13] Improve section "Manipulating branches" Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:25   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-25 11:41     ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-24  7:32 ` [PATCH 09/13] Improve section "Merge multiple trees" Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  5:23   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-25 12:06     ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25 20:10       ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-24  7:33 ` [PATCH 10/13] Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format" Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:28   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-08-24  7:34 ` [PATCH 11/13] Remove obscure reference from "Examples" Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-25  5:25   ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-08-25  9:30     ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-24  7:35 ` [PATCH 12/13] Remove irrelevant reference from "Tying it all together" Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-26 13:51     ` Jon Loeliger
2013-08-24  7:37 ` [PATCH 13/13] "git prune" is safe now Thomas Ackermann
2013-08-25  3:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-24 19:31 ` [PATCH 0/13] Modernize user-manual Philip Oakley

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