From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:14:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Starting to think about sha-256?
Message-ID: <m3hczxdgp1.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608271343120.27779@g5.osdl.org>

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.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa