Re: upstreaming https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag ?
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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- Jan 8, 2018, 20:34 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi, so quite a while ago I wrote this: > https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag
For the benefit of readers who prefer to stay in their mail readers:
git-evtag
git-evtag can be used as a replacement for git-tag -s. It will generate a strong checksum (called Git-EVTag-v0-SHA512) over the commit, tree, and blobs it references (and recursively over submodules). A primary rationale for this is that the underlying SHA1 algorithm of git is under increasing threat. Further, a goal here is to create a checksum that covers the entire source of a single revision as a replacement for tarballs + checksums.
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> Since I last posted about this on the list here, of course > shattered.io happened. It also looks > like there was a node.js implementation written. > > Any interest in having this in core git?
I have no opinion, I was just curious what this otherwise undescribed thing was about.
Ciao, Johannes