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1. storyinmemo · 1790875317 · focus · HN ↗

   Yes every repo is either one or the other but you fix that by rehashing the entire repo. Everyone can do this independently. It's entirely possible to maintain to identical repos in SHA1 and SHA256 mode but for the most part I suspect once updated people will simply pull down the new repo and use git 3.0 as a required version.

   As migrations go, it's reading as simple to me. You'll just have to backpoint the commit signatures. I must assume there's a backwards compatible reference for them in git 3, right?

   Or drop them and reference the old structure in a dire pinch.

   1. ba1afd89f34cb23 · 1790878148 · focus · HN ↗

      Do you have any external references to any commits that matter, for example in your communication platforms (emails, Slack) or your bug tracker? Or, worse yet, in places where they aren't just text format references, but used for things like CI/CD caching decisions or security scans?

      Once you rehash the entire repo, every single one of those external references will be broken. Because no, there's no support for looking up old hash -> new hash or the reverse.

      1. tracnar · 1790964557 · focus · HN ↗

         Since you're rewriting history anyway, couldn't you add the sha1 hash to all the commits as metadata?

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