> So if I understand you correctly, you would use the former when > generating your manifests from a revision, and the latter when verifying > the contents of the filesystem against those manifests. that sounds about right actually. except there won't be manifests e.g. I may actually run find . -name Manifest -exec rm '{}' + from the root of the tree. (depends on whether I can get rid of manifesting distfiles, but they don't change so often, so aren't really a problem). > $ git hash-object --stdin < Makefile > 27b9569746179e68c635bdaab8e57395f63faf01 is there anyway built in way to do that and check to see if the hash matches HEAD? (before I go and write a string comparison so that it does) -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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