From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 17:37:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFE] Teach hash-object to be able to choose signature types
Message-ID: <xmqqmug5xdhm.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190817015123.GD365197@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>

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

> trivial. I'm definitely not opposed if someone else is interested in
> picking it up or writing it; I don't believe my outstanding patches
> (which will likely show up on the list this weekend now that 2.23 is
> out) would affect it in any way.
>
> I'll try to push up the work that I'm doing into my "transition-interop"
> branch; it contains the work for literal hashing and a more significant
> refactor, which folks are free to ignore.

Thanks for pushing the SHA-256 transition forward.

>
> The problem is somewhat ameliorated by the fact that for most projects,
> there will be a mapping between SHA-1 and SHA-256, so it'll be possible
> to look up between the two, but it can still be confusing if the "wrong"
> one appears in commit messages, say.