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@@ -4251,9 +4251,9 @@ Two things are interesting here:
negative numbers in case of different errors--and 0 on success.
- the variable `sha1` in the function signature of `get_sha1()` is `unsigned
- char \*`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned
+ char {asterisk}`, but is actually expected to be a pointer to `unsigned
char[20]`. This variable will contain the 160-bit SHA-1 of the given
- commit. Note that whenever a SHA-1 is passed as `unsigned char \*`, it
+ commit. Note that whenever a SHA-1 is passed as `unsigned char {asterisk}`, it
is the binary representation, as opposed to the ASCII representation in
hex characters, which is passed as `char *`.