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Jonathan Corbet

On the radar: advancing the Git SHA-256 work.

Moving Git away from the SHA1 hash has been a long and slow process:

https://lwn.net/Articles/898522/

Much of the basic support to use SHA-256 is there, but a lot of the finishing work is not, so it remains unused. Now Eric Biederman has surfaced with a set of patches to provide interoperability between SHA-1 and SHA-256 repositories:

https://lwn.net/ml/git/87sf7ol0z3.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org/

Someday, maybe, this transition will actually happen. Maybe.
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