Re: [PATCH 4/9] sha1_file_name(): overwrite buffer instead of appending

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2018, 15:32 UTC
Message-ID: <f3547fa6-ba9e-0780-a1da-cc76aa0d4704@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20181112144856.GD7400@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 11/12/2018 9:48 AM, Jeff King wrote:

> Since we're changing the semantics, let's take the opportunity to give
> it a more hash-neutral name (which will also catch any callers from
> topics in flight).

THANK YOU! This method name confused me so much when I was first looking at the code, but the new name is so much better.

-Stolee

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