From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:12:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Document some functions defined in object.c
Message-ID: <xmqqlhx0bfjn.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <530B073D.5010702@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Contrariwise, I thought about it again and believe that it *is*
> important for the docstring to mention explicitly that the return value
> is architecture-dependent

As it gives an internal hash value which should not leak to the
outside world (e.g. stored in a file or sent over the wire later to
be read by other platforms), I think that is a good idea.