Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

Posted Jun 24, 2022 17:54 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git? by Cyberax
Parent article: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

You can even do both at the same time: “h” would mean “normal SHA256-bit hash in 65 letters” and “stuvwxyz” would start “40-letters long SHA256-bit hash” (if you take ASCII, excluse 37 “really bad” symbols, e.g. first 32, 127, “ ”, “%”, “$” and “.” then you can encode 13 bits in two characters).

This way you would even have an option for these old tools where 40-letters space is reserved for hash.

This should not be a default because at some point even longer hash would be needed, most likely.