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Re: SHA256 support not experimental, or?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 26, 2023, 16:44 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com> writes:
>
>> I'll try again with inline patch.
>>
>> From 90be51143e741053390810720ba4a639c3b0b74c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>
> Remove all the above lines (including the "From <commit object
> ...
>> Signed-off-by: Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/git.txt                      | 4 ++--
>>  Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt | 8 ++------
>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>> ...
> This side looks OK (just removing the single sentence).
>
>>  Git Commits
>>  ~~~~~~~~~~~
>> diff --git a/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt b/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt
>> index 4cb106f0d1..1e976688be 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt
>> @@ -1,6 +1,2 @@
>> ...
>
> The original did not have this problem because it had enough
> surrounding context, but the updated text now risks getting misread
> as if there are "regular" and "special" SHA-1 repositories, the
> latter of which might work better with SHA-256.
>
> And the message about SHA-256's non-experimental status can probably
> be a lot stronger, after the discussion we had recently.  How about
> saying something like:
>
>     Note: there is no interoperability between SHA-256 repositories
>     and SHA-1 repositories right now.  We historically warned that
>     SHA-256 repositories may need backward incompatible changes
>     later when we introduce such interoperability features, but at
>     this point we do not expect that we need to make such a change
>     when we do so, and the users can expect that their SHA-256
>     repositories they create with today's Git will be usable by
>     future versions of Git without losing information.
>
> which would probably be much closer to what you wanted to hear?
It has been a week.  Any news on this topic?
Thanks.
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  1. Adam MajerJun 28, 2023
  2. brian m. carlsonJun 29, 2023
  3. Adam MajerJun 29, 2023
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2023
  5. Adam MajerJun 29, 2023
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2023
  7. brian m. carlsonJun 29, 2023
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2023
  9. brian m. carlsonJun 30, 2023
  10. Patrick SteinhardtJun 30, 2023
  11. Adam MajerJun 30, 2023
  12. Patrick SteinhardtJun 30, 2023
  13. Son Luong NgocJun 30, 2023
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 30, 2023
  15. Adam MajerJul 20, 2023
  16. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2023
  17. Junio C HamanoJul 26, 2023
  18. Adam MajerJul 31, 2023
  19. doc: sha256 is no longer experimentalAdam Majer, Jul 31, 2023
  20. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2023
  21. Adam MajerJul 31, 2023

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