Remove unnecessary historical note from "Object storage format"
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index e65ac13..b3ed849 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -4145,8 +4145,6 @@
that is used to name the object is the hash of the original data
plus this header, so `sha1sum` 'file' does not match the object name
for 'file'.
-(Historical note: in the dawn of the age of Git the hash
-was the SHA-1 of the 'compressed' object.)
As a result, the general consistency of an object can always be tested
independently of the contents or the type of the object: all objects can
