Re: Why SHA are 40 bytes? (aka looking for flames)

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2007, 00:46 UTC
Message-ID: <462D5370.8040905@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704220925420.28339@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> 
> Object names aren't 40 bytes.  They are 20 bytes.
> It  is their hex representation that takes 40 bytes.
>

Sure, but that's the way they're stored in *most* git objects, in particular in commit objects.

	-hpa

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