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Re: How safe are signed git tags? Only as safe as SHA-1 or somehow safer?

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 25, 2014, 01:52 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the biggest obstacle is the upgrade path. ;-)

In the worst case we can always treat new repos as a different VCS. So people will need a migration from SHA-1 to the new format, just like they migrate from SVN/CVS to Git. Painful but simple.

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Duy
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