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Re: On raw strings in <origin> commit field


From: zimoun
Subject: Re: On raw strings in <origin> commit field
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:51:28 +0100

On Tue, 04 Jan 2022 at 06:23, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> 
wrote:

>> The content can be one file, some files, folders, etc.  or Git
>> objects as Git commit object or Git tree object or whatever. 
>> Therefore, Git commit hash only depends on the content itself, i.e.,
>> Git commit object; as explained by the pointer provided earlier in
>> the thread,
>> 
>>     <https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects>
>
> At some point in there (you can figure out yourself where), you are
> mistakenly equating file hashes and commit hashes, which you make
> comparison to other tools which only regard the files as content.  One
> of them is immutable for all I know, the other is subject to very
> observable changes.

Incorrect.

I quote myself:

        then, for what my opinion is worth on that matter, my probably
        wrong understanding of your words is that perhaps you are
        missing a point about content-addressability.

Loop.



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