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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-05-16 11:46:34 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-05-16 11:46:34 -0400 |
| commit | 2a8efc7af19aa149dbf0ebc158954bb376f9c3a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 879eef3ffe3c8bdac8cb9b489f8298a00f058042 /doc/backends.mdwn | |
| parent | 1d2984441c654f01e88e427f3289f8066cd2e6b0 (diff) | |
Added filename extension preserving variant backends SHA1E, SHA256E, etc.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/backends.mdwn | 3 |
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diff --git a/doc/backends.mdwn b/doc/backends.mdwn index b0a2c882a..4290da33b 100644 --- a/doc/backends.mdwn +++ b/doc/backends.mdwn @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ these backends. * `SHA512`, `SHA384`, `SHA256`, `SHA224` -- Like SHA1, but larger checksums. Mostly useful for the very paranoid, or anyone who is researching checksum collisions and wants to annex their colliding data. ;) +* `SHA1E`, `SHA512E`, etc -- Variants that preserve filename extension as + part of the key. Useful for archival tasks where the filename extension + contains metadata that should be preserved. These backends store file contents in other key/value stores. |