[CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

[Johnny Hughes]

On 02/09/2017 01:11 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 12:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> At the time of extraction, the <name>.metadata file is created (again,
>> not by us, but by the Red Hat team that distributes source), and all the
>> non-text sha1sums are in there as well as all the text sources.
> 
> Aha, <name>.metadata, well, for f.e. bc I see only a checksum for the
> tarball, but not for the patch files. For the kernel it contains
> checksums for some (all?) source files, but again, not for the patches.
> 
> Is this something you guys could pass on to Red Hat? If not, where
> should I direct a request to add checksums for patches to that metadata
> file?
> 

The patch files are in git as text files, right?  Why would you need
checksums of those? That is the purpose of git, right?

There are checksums of all the NON-text (binary) files in the metadata file.


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