From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:46:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Starting to think about sha-256?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608271343120.27779@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <m31wr1exbf.fsf@defiant.localdomain>



On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> 
> > 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