From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:32:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: full kernel history, in patchset format
Message-ID: <20050416183232.GH19099@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1113679421.28612.16.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de>

Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 09:23:40PM CEST, I got a letter
where Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> told me that...
> One remark on the tree blob storage format. 
> The binary storage of the sha1sum of the refered object is a PITA for
> scripting. 
> Converting the ASCII -> binary for the sha1sum comparision should not
> take much longer than the binary -> ASCII conversion for the file
> reference. Can this be changed ?

Huh, you aren't supposed to peek into trees directly. What's wrong with
ls-tree?

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