On Apr 24, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
I actually think calling them "sha1s" is better, simply because this
bit
of jargon doesn't mean anything else (git deals with email, so
"address"
is overloaded). And the term is already in use for this particular
case,
and it doesn't mean anything else at all (since, of course, the crypto
thing is "SHA-1", not "sha1"), and it's short (which is important for
making it easy to look at usage help).
The word "hash" would be an improvement.
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David Abrahams
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