Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git? [LWN.net]

Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

Posted Jun 24, 2022 16:18 UTC (Fri) by smammy (subscriber, #120874)
In reply to: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git? by klossner
Parent article: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

There's also Multihash, for what it's worth.

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Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

Posted Jun 25, 2022 17:46 UTC (Sat) by ms-tg (subscriber, #89231) [Link] (1 responses)

> There's also Multihash, for what it's worth.

How can we get this amplified? From my understanding, adopting multihash would go a long way to future-proofing git, as there would be a single “before multihash” case to account for, and then all future iterations would be signaling the encoding in-band with the ability to add future options cleanly? Wouldn’t it?

Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

Posted Jun 27, 2022 15:24 UTC (Mon) by smammy (subscriber, #120874) [Link]

Git people are so into shortened hashes that I doubt they'd go for a format that requires a four-digit prefix. Multihash has been discussed but obviously that never went anywhere.