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Re: Starting to think about sha-256?

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Aug 27, 2006, 20:46 UTC
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
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> > Maybe sha-256 could be considered for the next major-rev of git?
> 
> Not sure, but _if_ we want it we should do it sooner rather than
> later.

Modifying git-convert-objects.c to rewrite the regular sha1 into a sha256 should be fairly straightforward. It's never been used since the early days (and has limits like a maximum of a million objects etc that can need fixing), but it shouldn't be "fundamentally hard" per se.

		Linus
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  1. Jeff GarzikAug 27, 2006
  2. Krzysztof HalasaAug 27, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsAug 27, 2006
  4. Krzysztof HalasaAug 27, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinAug 27, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsAug 27, 2006
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  9. Linus TorvaldsAug 28, 2006
  10. Jeff KingAug 28, 2006
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  12. Jeff KingAug 28, 2006
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  15. Krzysztof HalasaAug 28, 2006
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