On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Linus Torvalds writes ("Re: RFC: Another proposed hash function transition plan"): > > Of course, having written that, I now realize how it would cause

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problems for the usual shit-for-brains case-insensitive

filesystems. > > So I guess base64 encoding doesn't work well for that
reason.
Given that the idea was to encode the new hash in base64 or base85, we
*are* talking about an encoding. In that respect, yes, it can be whatever
encoding we like, and Linus just made a good point (with unnecessary foul
language) of explaining why base64/base85 is not that encoding.

Since the hash format is switching anyway, how about using base32
instead of hex?

Still get a 20% space savings over hex (minus a little for padding), and
it's guaranteed to be a single case.
Jason