Messages in this thread | | | From | shawn wilson <> | Date | Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:24:07 -0400 | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0 |
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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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