From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1396B20958 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 03:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756169AbdCUDH3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2017 23:07:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.constrainttec.com ([59.167.34.41]:10429 "EHLO mx1.constrainttec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755307AbdCUDH2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2017 23:07:28 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.constrainttec.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428D0149C40B; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 03:07:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at maat.constrainttec.com Received: from mx1.constrainttec.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (maat.contecint.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0U6c-rhSfZcj; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:07:16 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from [10.224.200.149] (dhcp-149.contecint.com.au [10.224.200.149]) by mx1.constrainttec.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C423149C408; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:07:16 +1100 (AEDT) Subject: Re: Use base32? To: Jacob Keller References: <27077870-76d9-b45a-5727-c339a3d0ffc8@bu.edu> <1c213acb-1deb-8959-b1f8-28f99974640f@constrainttec.com> Cc: Jason Hennessey , Johannes Schindelin , Brandon Williams , Git mailing list , Ian Jackson , Jonathan Tan , Jonathan Nieder , Jeff King , Stefan Beller , Linus Torvalds From: Michael Steuer Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:07:16 +1100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 20/03/2017 19:05, Jacob Keller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Michael Steuer > wrote: >> [..] >> If base32 is being considered, I'd suggest the "base32hex" variant, which >> uses the same amount of space. > I don't see the benefit of adding characters like 0 and 1 which > conflict with some of the letters? Since there's no need for a human > to decode the base32 output, it's easier to use the one that's less > likely to get screwed up when typing if that ever happens. It's not > like we actually need to know what value each character represents. > (sure the program does, but the human does not). > > Thanks, > Jake Fair enough and good point. We definitely wouldn't want 0 and O and 1 and I mixed together. Cheers, Mike.