From: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:41:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion
Message-ID: <BD5D0ECC-5540-42BF-811D-040925225881@boostpro.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0904241852500.2147@iabervon.org>


On Apr 24, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> I actually think calling them "sha1s" is better, simply because this  
> bit
> of jargon doesn't mean anything else (git deals with email, so  
> "address"
> is overloaded). And the term is already in use for this particular  
> case,
> and it doesn't mean anything else at all (since, of course, the crypto
> thing is "SHA-1", not "sha1"), and it's short (which is important for
> making it easy to look at usage help).


The word "hash" would be an improvement.

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David Abrahams
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