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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
> outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
> making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object}
> can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".
>

What does this mean / what is the reason behind this? I can only think
it might be useful in a test suite to make sure git isn't doing
anything stupid with hashes...?


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