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.
This post misses, uh, a few important things that get mentioned in the lobsters comments: https://lobste.rs/s/bytzgl/git_3_0_s_upcoming_sha_256_default_will_be
Thanks for sharing.
Why didn’t I know lobsters before? This look 1000 times better than HN… oh you can’t join. Makes sense it isn’t that known.