Re: SHA-256 transition

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2022, 15:32 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqbkuj2y54.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YrPFfk5eIX55oO8R@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

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> On 2022-06-23 at 00:45:40, Stephen Smith wrote:
>> On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 5:29:59 PM MST brian m. carlson wrote:
>> > On 2022-06-21 at 10:25:01, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> > > But the reason I'd still say "no" on the technical/UX side is:
>> > >  * The inter-op between SHA-256 and SHA-1 repositories is still
>> > >  
>> > >    nonexistent, except for a one-off import. I.e. we don't have any
>> > >    graceful way to migrate an existing repository.
>> > 
>> > True, but that doesn't meant that new repositories couldn't use SHA-256.
>> 
>> So, any idea when a graceful way to migrate a repository might show up?
>
> I'm hoping that my employer will give me time to work on this in the
> future.  Perhaps I'll have more to show on this closer to the last
> quarter of the year.
>
> At the moment I happen to be very busy in my personal life, so I'm not
> finding a great deal of time to code much of anything.  But if that
> changes, I'll try to get back to it.

Great ;-).  Thanks.