Re: Suggestion on hashing

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Chris West (Faux) <faux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>>
>> SHA-1 charateristics (like 20 byte length) are hard coded everywhere
>> in git, it'd be a big audit.
>
>
> I was planning to look at this anyway.  My branch[1] allows
>  init/add/commit with SHA-256, SHA-512 and all the SHA-3 candidates.

Great!

> log/fsck/etc. are all broken.  Don't even dare try packs.  Fixing things
>  is painful but not impossible.  I'm not convinced the task is even
>  remotely insurmountable.

It would take more work, but after you're done with code changes, you
should have a look at updating the test suite. We have many SHA-1s
there. If the test suite passes, your job is (beautifully) done.
-- 
Duy
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