From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:49:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Hash algorithm choice
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908091949090.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <f448a46a0908090917s102b4c83pbad6f298a8e127cc@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Jerome Baum wrote:

> I just had an idea regarding git and hashing. Couldn't find any previous 
> discussion on the subject so here's what I'm thinking of:
> 
> How difficult would it be to allow users to choose a hash function 
> during git-init which is then globally used in the repo? Are there many 
> changes needed or are changes in git-hash-object and git-init 
> sufficient?

A quick search revealed this:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/25632/focus=25735

Hth,
Dscho