The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
Use "SHA-1" instead of "SHA1" whenever we talk about the hash function. When used as a programming symbol, we keep "SHA1". Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Yossi Leybovich wrote:
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> Any one know how can I track this object and understand which file is it
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So exactly *because* the SHA1 hash is cryptographically secure, the hash
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So exactly *because* the SHA-1 hash is cryptographically secure, the hash
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itself doesn't actually tell you anything, in order to fix a corrupt
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object you basically have to find the "original source" for it.
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@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ So:
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This is the right thing to do, although it's usually best to save it under
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it's full SHA1 name (you just dropped the "4b" from the result ;).
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it's full SHA-1 name (you just dropped the "4b" from the result ;).
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Let's see what that tells us:
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@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ working tree, in which case fixing this problem is really simple, just do
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git hash-object -w my-magic-file
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again, and if it outputs the missing SHA1 (4b945..) you're now all done!
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again, and if it outputs the missing SHA-1 (4b945..) you're now all done!
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But that's the really lucky case, so let's assume that it was some older
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version that was broken. How do you tell which version it was?
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