Re: Why SHA are 40 bytes? (aka looking for flames)

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Apr 24, 2007, 02:44 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704232236250.12375@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <462D5370.8040905@zytor.com>

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > Object names aren't 40 bytes.  They are 20 bytes.
> > It  is their hex representation that takes 40 bytes.
> > 
> 
> Sure, but that's the way they're stored in *most* git objects, in particular
> in commit objects.

Commit objects aren't *most* objects. They usually are blob and tree objects, and for the later the SHA1 references are stored as 20 byte binary.

Nicolas