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That's an interesting thought, and I don't feel there's any advantage in the text being in hex. The only problem would by now probably too much code expects he
by CJefferson 10y ago
That's an interesting thought, and I don't feel there's any advantage in the text being in hex.
The only problem would by now probably too much code expects hex, so I'm not sure the gain is big enough to go through the pain of the switch.
- peff 10y agoA nice side effect of hex is that you can pick it out of a text commit message with higher accuracy (e.g., to turn it into a hyperlink). Tools like `gitk` and sites like GitHub do this using a regex.