Re: [RFC] - url-safe base64 commit-id's

2017-02-27 Thread Bryan Turner
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:27 PM, G. Sylvie Davies wrote: > Is there any appetite for base64'd commit-id's, using the url-safe > variant (e.g. RFC 4648 [1] with padding removed)? > > And so this: > 712bad335dfa9c410a83f9873614a19726acb3a8 > > Becomes this: > cSutM136nEEKg_mHNhShlyass6g > > > Under

[RFC] - url-safe base64 commit-id's

2017-02-27 Thread G. Sylvie Davies
Is there any appetite for base64'd commit-id's, using the url-safe variant (e.g. RFC 4648 [1] with padding removed)? And so this: 712bad335dfa9c410a83f9873614a19726acb3a8 Becomes this: cSutM136nEEKg_mHNhShlyass6g Under the hood things cannot change (e.g., ".git/objects/71/") because file system