Re: [PATCH] Implement fast hash-collision detection

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 29, 2011, 13:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BRhoYM+Lb8afp=3rKzYNOEq0JY8uS9mD1ovz3uyJVWOA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111129090733.GA22046@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> However, it's harder for trees. Each entry needs to have the new digest
> added, but there simply isn't room in the format. So we would have to
> change the tree format, breaking interoperability with older versions of
> git. And all of your tree sha1's would change as soon as you wrote them
> with the new format. That's only slightly better than just swapping
> sha1 out for a better algorithm.

I think we could hide the new digest after NUL at the end of path name. C Git at least does not seem to care whatever after NUL.

-- 
Duy