alt Hacker NewsEvery object in git (commit, tree, revision of a single file) has a hash that is guaranteed unique within a repository (otherwise many more things than a web UI would break) and likely also globally. I can understand wanting to isolate repositories to prevent hash collisions from causing problems, but within a repo everything has a universally unique ID.
edit: for instance, that specific VERBS.md is represented by the blob 3b9a46854589abb305ea33360f6f6d8634649108.
that's not what i meant. i was trying to suggest that the string "blob" does not fit. why is it there? why is it needed?
this should be sufficient to represent the file."blob" is like a descriptor of the value that follows. it would be like doing this:
this actually irks me every time i see it in a github url