From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:24:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v1.8.3-rc0
Message-ID: <CAH_OBievcf-_z_AX9UrmWL_HVFT2vSQTu+wXAjAFeQBM8iFSGw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvc78u8jl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>  * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
>    outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
>    making sure such an object exists".  A new peeling suffix ^{object}
>    can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".
>

What does this mean / what is the reason behind this? I can only think
it might be useful in a test suite to make sure git isn't doing
anything stupid with hashes...?