Re: Blob hash of binary files in patches generated by git format patch show in full form instead of short form

> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
>>
>> Blob hash for binary files are shown in full form, as opposed to blob hash
>> for text files.
> 
> This is working as intended, designed and implemented.
> 
> The textual patch is meant to be applicable on target text that may
> even have been slightly modified from the original from which the
> patch was taken, and the abbreviated object name on the "index" line
> is there mostly for human's sanity check and as a visual aid.
> Ordinarily it is not used to actually find the matching blob object
> (and it is not an error if there is no matching blob object in the
> repository that a patch application is attempted in).
> 
> But the binary patch is designed to be applicable only to an exact
> copy of the original and nowhere else.  The object name is given in
> full, instead of using abbreviated form, to ensure that we do not
> try to apply a binary patch to an object whose name is "similar".
> 
> Thanks.
>