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Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

570 points · 536 comments · chmaynard

  1. pasteleft · · focus · HN ↗
    Didn't GitHub broke the entire CI system by switching to "main" branch :thinking_face:

    Anyway, I think it'll be the same. Tools will support SHA-256 quickly and we might have a migration program that converts SHA-1 repo to SHA-256 repo.

    The only problem is that git (and related tools) will get twice as big...

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