Re: How safe are signed git tags? Only as safe as SHA-1 or somehow safer?

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On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe we can fix the tree-sorting order while we are at it. :)

At this speed, there a teeny tiny chance that pack v4 will be ready by
Git v3.0 and we can pile that on top of the new tree format. And we
don't have to worry about v3<->v4 online conversion either because
it's backward incompatible ;)

> More seriously, there may come a day when we are ready to break
> compatibility completely with a new "Git v3.0" (2.0 is already taken, of
> course). I do not have immediate plans for it, but it's possible that
> multiple factors may make such a move desirable sometime in the next 10
> years, and that would be a good time to jump hash algorithms, as well.
>
> So it's possible that procrastinating on SHA-1 issues may be the least
> painful route. Or it may just be pushing off the day of pain. :)
-- 
Duy
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