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authorLibravatar Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>2013-04-15 19:49:04 +0200
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-15 11:08:37 -0700
commitd5fa1f1a69f578831179b77893aac480b986e875 (patch)
tree1e04ba1f10d79969f18cb62d2a30844e98256b02 /Documentation/howto
parentglossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics (diff)
downloadtgif-d5fa1f1a69f578831179b77893aac480b986e875.tar.xz
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function. When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt
index 6d362ceb10..1b3b188d3c 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Yossi Leybovich wrote:
> Any one know how can I track this object and understand which file is it
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-So exactly *because* the SHA1 hash is cryptographically secure, the hash
+So exactly *because* the SHA-1 hash is cryptographically secure, the hash
itself doesn't actually tell you anything, in order to fix a corrupt
object you basically have to find the "original source" for it.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ So:
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This is the right thing to do, although it's usually best to save it under
-it's full SHA1 name (you just dropped the "4b" from the result ;).
+it's full SHA-1 name (you just dropped the "4b" from the result ;).
Let's see what that tells us:
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ working tree, in which case fixing this problem is really simple, just do
git hash-object -w my-magic-file
-again, and if it outputs the missing SHA1 (4b945..) you're now all done!
+again, and if it outputs the missing SHA-1 (4b945..) you're now all done!
But that's the really lucky case, so let's assume that it was some older
version that was broken. How do you tell which version it was?