From 5cd2cfa5638fd90a01de1fe94f0a2b9eb16f8ba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mitchell Hashimoto <mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:19:35 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] comment so future-mitchell knows what I've done

---
 common/config.go | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common/config.go b/common/config.go
index f55cbbb2f..0fe5ffc99 100644
--- a/common/config.go
+++ b/common/config.go
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ func decodeConfigHook(raws []interface{}) (mapstructure.DecodeHookFunc, error) {
 
 	return func(f reflect.Kind, t reflect.Kind, v interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
 		if t != reflect.String {
+			// We need to convert []uint8 to string. We have to do this
+			// because internally Packer uses MsgPack for RPC and the MsgPack
+			// codec turns strings into []uint8
 			if f == reflect.Slice {
 				dataVal  := reflect.ValueOf(v)
 				dataType := dataVal.Type()