"brian m. carlson" <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> writes: >> Don't test "any number of '0'"; test 40 '0's. This is because the >> line format was designed to be usable by things like /etc/magic to >> detect format-patch output, and we want to notice if/when we break >> that aspect of our output format. > > My idea was to future-proof it against changes in the hash function, > although that's in the distant future.
Making sure that the test fails when somebody accidentally lengthens (or fails to truncate to 40-hex, when you start using a longer hash) the displayed name there is a good future-proofing. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
