From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:55:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] base85: No need to initialize the decode table in encode_85
Message-ID: <7v3a2giobm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B475361.60506@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> Andreas Gruenbacher venit, vidit, dixit 08.01.2010 14:39:
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
>> ---
>
> For the less informed it may be worthwhile to have an explanation in the
> commit message why encode_85() does not need to initialize the table. (I
> strongly suspect it's a matter of de vs. en, i.e. "because it only
> encodes but does not decode."...)

The title can be reworded to

    base85: encode85() does not use the decode table