From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:50:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] make the new block-sha1 the default
Message-ID: <7vprakpett.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090825041859.GA10033@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:04:37PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
>> ... and remove support for linking against the openssl SHA1 code.
>> 
>> The block-sha1 implementation is not significantly worse and sometimes 
>> even faster than the openssl SHA1 implementation.  This allows for
>
> Is there a reason not to leave the option of linking against openssl?

I think it is a valid question.  Why remove the _option_?

I would certainly understand it if you made BLK_SHA1 the _default_, though.