From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 03:28:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format"
Message-ID: <xmqqeh9imotd.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1339924016.1091137.1377329596491.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail08.arcor-online.net>

Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> writes:

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/user-manual.txt | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> index f713f26..aa6bfab 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> @@ -4132,8 +4132,6 @@ about the data in the object.  It's worth noting that the SHA-1 hash
>  that is used to name the object is the hash of the original data
>  plus this header, so `sha1sum` 'file' does not match the object name
>  for 'file'.
> -(Historical note: in the dawn of the age of Git the hash
> -was the SHA-1 of the 'compressed' object.)

As we no longer are able to read such a historical object, I think
it is OK to drop the historical note in this particular case.

Thanks.

>  
>  As a result, the general consistency of an object can always be tested
>  independently of the contents or the type of the object: all objects can