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Re: Starting to think about sha-256?

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KHKrzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date
Aug 27, 2006, 21:14 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 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.

Sure. I was rather thinking of rapidly increasing number of git repositories, each with growing history.

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Krzysztof Halasa
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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
  7. David LangAug 28, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsAug 28, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsAug 28, 2006
  10. Jeff KingAug 28, 2006
  11. Linus TorvaldsAug 28, 2006
  12. Jeff KingAug 28, 2006
  13. Krzysztof HalasaAug 28, 2006
  14. Linus TorvaldsAug 28, 2006
  15. Krzysztof HalasaAug 28, 2006
  16. Linus TorvaldsAug 28, 2006
  17. Johannes SchindelinAug 28, 2006
  18. Linus TorvaldsAug 28, 2006
  19. Florian WeimerAug 29, 2006

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