Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

Posted Jun 25, 2022 4:46 UTC (Sat) by alison (subscriber, #63752)
In reply to: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git? by brasic
Parent article: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?

> Every git commit is the root of a merkle tree, or as the kids call it, a “blockchain”. A git
> commit object id is the hash of a string which includes among other things the commit’s
> immediate parent object ids, and the commit’s root tree object id.

Is the algorithm used by TPMs also a merkel tree?