Re: SHA-256 transition

From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Date: Jun 24, 2022, 00:29 UTC
Message-ID: <8735fukioo.fsf@kyleam.com>
In-Reply-To: <220624.86fsjvj690.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes:

> E.g. I use magit with Emacs, and last I checked it would puke on
> SHA-256. But checking again it seems someone patched it in January of
> this year to e.g. change "{40}" in regexes to "{40,}", so in theory it
> should work now (but I didn't try actually using it in that mode).

Yeah, I gave it some testing as I made those adjustments [*], but "in theory it should work" is about my level of confidence too. If you're experimenting with SHA-256 repos and find spots where Magit chokes, opening issues on Magit's side would be very appreciated.

[*] https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/4585