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author | Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> | 2013-04-15 19:49:04 +0200 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-15 11:08:37 -0700 |
commit | d5fa1f1a69f578831179b77893aac480b986e875 (patch) | |
tree | 1e04ba1f10d79969f18cb62d2a30844e98256b02 /Documentation/howto | |
parent | glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics (diff) | |
download | tgif-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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/howto')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/howto/recover-corrupted-blob-object.txt | 6 |
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 ----------------------------------------------------------- -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: ----------------------------------------------------------- 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? |