From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 19:15:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] The diff-raw format updates.
Message-ID: <7vbr73dqdi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050522183645.GA1866@localhost.localdomain>

>>>>> "NH" == Niklas Hoglund <nhoglund@gmail.com> writes:

NH> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:35:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> :000000 100644 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 25ab9eda939ad92bb746c2419d083b1e52117a56	diffcore-pathspec.c	diffcore-pathspec.c

NH> Don't you think it would be easier to read if the SHA1 field was, say, a
NH> dash and 19 spaces, instead of an obviously bogus SHA1?

My understanding of the purpose of the diff-raw format is
primarily about machine readablility; 0{40} was far easier to
code cleanly---please see why in diff-helper.c.