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by loeg 3384 days ago
No. We're talking about zoren's hypothetical case where git used a typedef from the beginning, instead of littering char[20]s all over the tree.

My prior comment was explaining why jffry's complaint is nonsensical (a typedef does not prevent moving from a single hash model to a multiple simultaneous hash model).

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Hmm, not sure where there disagreement is, that's exactly what I'm saying. Obviously it wasn't done from the beginning, but the code is now changing from the char[20]s everywhere to the typedef precisely to be able support multiple hash functions.