Re: SHA256 support not experimental, or?
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.