A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: >> I do wonder why there is <OCTAL_MODE> (and not <BINARY_OCTAL_MODE>) >> but <BINARY_OBJ_ID> (and not <HEX_OBJ_ID>). >> > > <OCTAL_MODE> because it's an ASCII string. <BINARY_OBJ_ID> because it's > the 20 byte digest. I meant why git use ASCII string for octal mode, while using 20 byte digest for object-id in tree format. More consistent would be use binary and binary, or ASCII and ASCII (i.e. <HEX_OBJ_ID>). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html