From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:18:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] adding support for md5
Message-ID: <7vr6z9s376.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060821204430.GA2700@tuatara.stupidest.org>

Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:50:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> I can see the point of configurable hashes, but it would be for a
>> stronger hash than sha1, not for a (much) weaker one.
>
> Why any configuration option at all?  What in practice does it really
> buy?

I personally am not interested in making this configurable at
all.  The hashcmp() change on the other hand to abstract out 20
was a good preparation, if we ever want to switch to longer
hashes we would know where to look.