From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 21:02:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-curl: fix clone on sha256 repos
Message-ID: <xmqqh7j9kmqp.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YJrMNmH92mKrIX0N@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> There are specific dumb-http tests in t5550. And I think we can and do
> run the suite with GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH=sha256. But I suspect that
> covers up the problem. If I understand the problem correctly, it comes
> about when the client thinks the default hash is sha1, but the server is
> sha256. Whereas GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_HASH affects _both_ sides.
>
> So I think we'd want interop tests in t5550 that specifically create a
> sha256 server and access it with a sha1 client (and possibly vice
> versa).

Ahh, you're right.  Such a combination is worth testing but is
tricky to arrange.