Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.
In a well-fleshed-out post, Scott Chacon shows how unneecessary Git 3.0’s move to replace SHA-1 with SHA-256 is.
You’re probably more qualified than most HNers, just less confident, less inclined to indulge in performative expertise and pseudo-intellectual posturing, and more resistant to joining the circle-jerks with those who do indulge.
You’re probably more qualified than most HNers, just less confident, less inclined to indulge in performative expertise and pseudo-intellectual posturing, and more resistant to joining the circle-jerks with those who do indulge.