Re: Hash algorithm choice

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

Wouldn't the transport code also have to be modified? I assume git's
integrity checking would yell at if you gave it commits with
non-sha1-hashes and have no way to tell it that that hash was
calculated with a non-sha1-hash at clone time?

Well, if you start introducing new hashes, the assumption is that all 
git's that access it would have to be updated.

You certainly could never pull/push between git versions that don't know 
about each others hashes. But you _can_ autodetect the hash mechanism 
(simple: just try them all on the first object you encounter)

		Linus