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by ris 3123 days ago
Funny, I always expected Git to transition by adding a stronger hash as a piece of metadata to each commit and continue using SHA-1 for the day-to-day identifier, seeing as most of the time Git doesn't actually go back and actually verify the whole commit chain unless you ask it to.
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They actually considered the reverse (search for `Using hash functions in parallel`)