Plan is to make it easy to transition.
Plan is to make it easy to transition.
Posted Jun 30, 2022 13:53 UTC (Thu) by gmatht (subscriber, #58961)In reply to: At this point... by jd
Parent article: Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
As jthill already mentioned, we can already do `git init --object-format=sha256`. The difficulty is making it easy to transition to a new hash. Once it is easy to transition to a new hash, there is less need to pick a future-proof hash, and in the meanwhile sha256 has more widespread hardware acceleration. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60087759/git-is-movin...