NewHash history
NewHash history
Posted Feb 20, 2026 17:00 UTC (Fri) by newren (guest, #5160)In reply to: Why not blake3? by claudex
Parent article: Evolving Git for the next decade
> the choice for hashing algorithm started in 2018
Actually, it started in early 2017[1]. Goals and non-goals and strategy and other working details were committed in mid-2017[2] and the final decision on which specific hash should be the NewHash was made in mid 2018 ([3,4]).
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20170228214724.w7w5f6n4u6ehan...
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=752...
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180725083024.16131-1-avarab...
[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=0ed... ).