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authorThomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>2013-04-15 19:49:04 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-15 11:08:37 -0700
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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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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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-A "patch ID" is nothing but a SHA1 of the diff associated with a patch, with
+A "patch ID" is nothing but a SHA-1 of the diff associated with a patch, with
whitespace and line numbers ignored. As such, it's "reasonably stable", but at
the same time also reasonably unique, i.e., two patches that have the same "patch
ID" are almost guaranteed to be the same thing.