From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: Starting to think about sha-256? Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:14:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <44F1DCB7.6020804@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Garzik , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 27 23:14:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHRxw-00088X-Ot for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:14:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932257AbWH0VOh (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:14:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932260AbWH0VOh (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:14:37 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:2001 "EHLO khc.piap.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932257AbWH0VOh (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:14:37 -0400 Received: by khc.piap.pl (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6FBF110811; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:14:35 +0200 (CEST) To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:46:57 -0700 (PDT)") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > Modifying git-convert-objects.c to rewrite the regular sha1 into a sha256 > should be fairly straightforward. It's never been used since the early > days (and has limits like a maximum of a million objects etc that can need > fixing), but it shouldn't be "fundamentally hard" per se. Sure. I was rather thinking of rapidly increasing number of git repositories, each with growing history. -- Krzysztof Halasa