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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Subject: Re: Request for detailed documentation of git pack protocol
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
> Actually git accepts both lowercase and uppercase in HEXDIG (at least
> for pkt-length), but it prefers lowercase.

You should ensure that all hex digit strings follow the same rule.
Are SHA-1 object names case insensitive too?

Case insensitivity has a history of being awkward. SMTP has always had
case-insensitive commands, though the RFCs have always written them in
upper case and implementations have pretty much all emitted them in upper
case. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.4 especially the
caveat about broken case-sensitive implementations.

Tony.
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