From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:51:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] rev-parse: add an --object-format option
Message-ID: <3cb91b69-7d33-12ab-de37-175592f95df7@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191005211209.18237-4-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

On 10/5/2019 5:11 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Add an option to print the object format used for input, output, or
> storage. This allows shell scripts to discover the hash algorithm in
> use.

Why put this in 'rev-parse'? Is a test helper not an option for this?

-Stolee