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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>,
	git discussion list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Subject: Re: How safe are signed git tags? Only as safe as SHA-1 or somehow safer?
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:47:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141125034730.GB19161@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8C3Bfruy=usn9MajmLP_10s2zf8AFZJmxyeGSPDS9SwVQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 08:52:58AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the biggest obstacle is the upgrade path. ;-)
> 
> In the worst case we can always treat new repos as a different VCS. So
> people will need a migration from SHA-1 to the new format, just like
> they migrate from SVN/CVS to Git. Painful but simple.

Maybe we can fix the tree-sorting order while we are at it. :)

More seriously, there may come a day when we are ready to break
compatibility completely with a new "Git v3.0" (2.0 is already taken, of
course). I do not have immediate plans for it, but it's possible that
multiple factors may make such a move desirable sometime in the next 10
years, and that would be a good time to jump hash algorithms, as well.

So it's possible that procrastinating on SHA-1 issues may be the least
painful route. Or it may just be pushing off the day of pain. :)

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-25  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-16 15:31 How safe are signed git tags? Only as safe as SHA-1 or somehow safer? Patrick Schleizer
2014-11-17 21:26 ` Jeff King
2014-11-21 23:01   ` Patrick Schleizer
2014-11-21 23:32     ` Jason Pyeron
2014-11-22 19:48       ` Jeff King
2014-11-22 19:43     ` Jeff King
2014-11-25 12:59     ` Fedor Brunner
2014-11-24  1:23   ` Duy Nguyen
2014-11-24 10:15     ` Michael J Gruber
2014-11-24 11:44       ` Duy Nguyen
2014-11-25 10:41         ` Duy Nguyen
2014-11-24 15:51       ` Jeff King
2014-11-24 18:14   ` Nico Williams
2014-11-25  1:16     ` Duy Nguyen
2014-11-25  1:23       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-11-25  1:52         ` Duy Nguyen
2014-11-25  3:40           ` Stefan Beller
2014-11-25  3:47           ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-11-25 10:55             ` Duy Nguyen
2014-11-25 17:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-11-25 11:07       ` brian m. carlson
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2014-11-24  0:52 bancfc

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