Re: [PATCH 0/4] hash.h: support choosing a separate SHA-1 for non-cryptographic uses

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 3, 2024, 20:44 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq34mgii0z.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZtdoD/slbc+u7Aql@nand.local>

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> Yeah. I would actually like to get here in the long-term, but of course
> that change is much larger than this one (the protocol would have to be
> adjusted to learn a new "tailsum" capability for callers to negotiate
> which checksumming hash function they want to use, etc.).

I dunno. I was talking about strictly local tail sum, like the ones in the index file. You do not have anybody to negotiate about anything.

We already agreed that the name of a packfile is a different matter.

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