From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:58:28 GMT
Subject: Re: SHA1 collisions found
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaZWe-8pMZnQv7uZtr8wXWawFeJjUa68-b0oa4yFo-HcA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk28f4fti.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> you are inviting people to start using
>
>     md5,54ddf8d47340e048166c45f439ce65fd
>
> as object names.

which might even be okay for specific subsets of operations.
(e.g. all local work including staging things, making local "fixup" commits)

The addressing scheme should not be too hardcoded, we should rather
treat it similar to the cipher schemes in pgp. The additional complexity that
we have is the longevity of existence of things, though.