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everlost
3382 days ago
Naive question - why can't GitHub use a SHA2 function for commit hashes?
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detaro
3382 days ago
Because Git only supports SHA-1 as of now, and files in Git, distributed to users, is what they worry about here. If it were some internal system, then they could switch to a different hash easier.
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