On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 02:46:49PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote: > Make the function for converting pairs of hexadecimal digits to binary > available to other call sites. > > Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> > --- > cache.h | 7 +++++++ > hex.c | 12 ++++++++++++ > notes.c | 17 ----------------- > 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h > index 6440e2bf21..f06bfbaf32 100644 > --- a/cache.h > +++ b/cache.h > @@ -1317,6 +1317,13 @@ extern int set_disambiguate_hint_config(const char *var, const char *value); > extern int get_sha1_hex(const char *hex, unsigned char *sha1); > extern int get_oid_hex(const char *hex, struct object_id *sha1); > > +/* > + * Read `len` pairs of hexadecimal digits from `hex` and write the > + * values to `binary` as `len` bytes. Return 0 on success, or -1 if Is it correct to call the result binary? I would say that it's the value that gets stored. To me, this value does not really have a base. Kevin