Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

Posted Jun 24, 2022 7:22 UTC (Fri) by azumanga (subscriber, #90158)
In reply to: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git? by brasic
Parent article: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

I think there is (to me) a misunderstanding of "whole tree".

The problem is, while yes the hash "represents" the whole tree, if SHA1 is broken signing a hash for either a single commit, or whole tree, are both in practice useless.