Hi all, I just had an idea regarding git and hashing. Couldn't find any previous discussion on the subject so here's what I'm thinking of: How difficult would it be to allow users to choose a hash function during git-init which is then globally used in the repo? Are there many changes needed or are changes in git-hash-object and git-init sufficient? I'm not trying to undermine the decision to use SHA-1 or anything, but I would guess it builds for the future and adds flexibility to the system. So when SHA-1 is no longer sufficient, it would be easy to switch to RIPEMD-160 with a simple "git-init --hash=ripemd160" Would be happy for any comments on this. Regards, Jerome Baum Hugo-Junkers-Str. 2 D-37083 Göttingen Germany Tel.: +49 551 2008782 Web: www.JeromeBaum.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html