From: Felipe Contreras Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 09:38:27 +0000 (+0300) Subject: user-manual: the name of the hash function is SHA-1, not sha1 X-Git-Tag: v1.6.3-rc0~33 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6e5ef7d9cc34199fb6618e1fbb57f3615d002f6;p=git.git user-manual: the name of the hash function is SHA-1, not sha1 Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 1bc4b7037..dbbeb7e7c 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ As you can see, a commit shows who made the latest change, what they did, and why. Every commit has a 40-hexdigit id, sometimes called the "object name" or the -"SHA1 id", shown on the first line of the "git show" output. You can usually +"SHA-1 id", shown on the first line of the "git show" output. You can usually refer to a commit by a shorter name, such as a tag or a branch name, but this longer name can also be useful. Most importantly, it is a globally unique name for this commit: so if you tell somebody else the object name (for @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so HEAD is now at 427abfa... Linux v2.6.17 ------------------------------------------------ -The HEAD then refers to the SHA1 of the commit instead of to a branch, +The HEAD then refers to the SHA-1 of the commit instead of to a branch, and git branch shows that you are no longer on a branch: ------------------------------------------------ @@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ $ git log --pretty=oneline origin..mybranch | wc -l ------------------------------------------------- Alternatively, you may often see this sort of thing done with the -lower-level command linkgit:git-rev-list[1], which just lists the SHA1's +lower-level command linkgit:git-rev-list[1], which just lists the SHA-1's of all the given commits: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -2865,8 +2865,8 @@ The Object Database We already saw in <> that all commits are stored under a 40-digit "object name". In fact, all the information needed to represent the history of a project is stored in objects with such names. -In each case the name is calculated by taking the SHA1 hash of the -contents of the object. The SHA1 hash is a cryptographic hash function. +In each case the name is calculated by taking the SHA-1 hash of the +contents of the object. The SHA-1 hash is a cryptographic hash function. What that means to us is that it is impossible to find two different objects with the same name. This has a number of advantages; among others: @@ -2877,10 +2877,10 @@ others: same content stored in two repositories will always be stored under the same name. - Git can detect errors when it reads an object, by checking that the - object's name is still the SHA1 hash of its contents. + object's name is still the SHA-1 hash of its contents. (See <> for the details of the object formatting and -SHA1 calculation.) +SHA-1 calculation.) There are four different types of objects: "blob", "tree", "commit", and "tag". @@ -2926,9 +2926,9 @@ committer Junio C Hamano 1187591163 -0700 As you can see, a commit is defined by: -- a tree: The SHA1 name of a tree object (as defined below), representing +- a tree: The SHA-1 name of a tree object (as defined below), representing the contents of a directory at a certain point in time. -- parent(s): The SHA1 name of some number of commits which represent the +- parent(s): The SHA-1 name of some number of commits which represent the immediately previous step(s) in the history of the project. The example above has one parent; merge commits may have more than one. A commit with no parents is called a "root" commit, and @@ -2977,13 +2977,13 @@ $ git ls-tree fb3a8bdd0ce ------------------------------------------------ As you can see, a tree object contains a list of entries, each with a -mode, object type, SHA1 name, and name, sorted by name. It represents +mode, object type, SHA-1 name, and name, sorted by name. It represents the contents of a single directory tree. The object type may be a blob, representing the contents of a file, or another tree, representing the contents of a subdirectory. Since trees -and blobs, like all other objects, are named by the SHA1 hash of their -contents, two trees have the same SHA1 name if and only if their +and blobs, like all other objects, are named by the SHA-1 hash of their +contents, two trees have the same SHA-1 name if and only if their contents (including, recursively, the contents of all subdirectories) are identical. This allows git to quickly determine the differences between two related tree objects, since it can ignore any entries with @@ -3029,15 +3029,15 @@ currently checked out. Trust ~~~~~ -If you receive the SHA1 name of a blob from one source, and its contents +If you receive the SHA-1 name of a blob from one source, and its contents from another (possibly untrusted) source, you can still trust that those -contents are correct as long as the SHA1 name agrees. This is because -the SHA1 is designed so that it is infeasible to find different contents +contents are correct as long as the SHA-1 name agrees. This is because +the SHA-1 is designed so that it is infeasible to find different contents that produce the same hash. -Similarly, you need only trust the SHA1 name of a top-level tree object +Similarly, you need only trust the SHA-1 name of a top-level tree object to trust the contents of the entire directory that it refers to, and if -you receive the SHA1 name of a commit from a trusted source, then you +you receive the SHA-1 name of a commit from a trusted source, then you can easily verify the entire history of commits reachable through parents of that commit, and all of those contents of the trees referred to by those commits. @@ -3049,7 +3049,7 @@ that you trust that commit, and the immutability of the history of commits tells others that they can trust the whole history. In other words, you can easily validate a whole archive by just -sending out a single email that tells the people the name (SHA1 hash) +sending out a single email that tells the people the name (SHA-1 hash) of the top commit, and digitally sign that email using something like GPG/PGP. @@ -3090,7 +3090,7 @@ How git stores objects efficiently: pack files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Newly created objects are initially created in a file named after the -object's SHA1 hash (stored in .git/objects). +object's SHA-1 hash (stored in .git/objects). Unfortunately this system becomes inefficient once a project has a lot of objects. Try this on an old project: @@ -3297,7 +3297,7 @@ $ git hash-object -w somedirectory/myfile ------------------------------------------------ which will create and store a blob object with the contents of -somedirectory/myfile, and output the sha1 of that object. if you're +somedirectory/myfile, and output the SHA-1 of that object. if you're extremely lucky it might be 4b9458b3786228369c63936db65827de3cc06200, in which case you've guessed right, and the corruption is fixed! @@ -3359,7 +3359,7 @@ The index ----------- The index is a binary file (generally kept in .git/index) containing a -sorted list of path names, each with permissions and the SHA1 of a blob +sorted list of path names, each with permissions and the SHA-1 of a blob object; linkgit:git-ls-files[1] can show you the contents of the index: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -3754,7 +3754,7 @@ unsaved state that you might want to restore later!) your current index. Normal operation is just ------------------------------------------------- -$ git read-tree +$ git read-tree ------------------------------------------------- and your index file will now be equivalent to the tree that you saved @@ -3978,7 +3978,7 @@ $ git ls-files --unmerged ------------------------------------------------ Each line of the `git ls-files --unmerged` output begins with -the blob mode bits, blob SHA1, 'stage number', and the +the blob mode bits, blob SHA-1, 'stage number', and the filename. The 'stage number' is git's way to say which tree it came from: stage 1 corresponds to `$orig` tree, stage 2 `HEAD` tree, and stage3 `$target` tree. @@ -4045,12 +4045,12 @@ objects). There are currently four different object types: "blob", Regardless of object type, all objects share the following characteristics: they are all deflated with zlib, and have a header that not only specifies their type, but also provides size information -about the data in the object. It's worth noting that the SHA1 hash +about the data in the object. It's worth noting that the SHA-1 hash that is used to name the object is the hash of the original data plus this header, so `sha1sum` 'file' does not match the object name for 'file'. (Historical note: in the dawn of the age of git the hash -was the sha1 of the 'compressed' object.) +was the SHA-1 of the 'compressed' object.) As a result, the general consistency of an object can always be tested independently of the contents or the type of the object: all objects can