Re: more git updates..

H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-11T13:58:46Z

Followup to: <20050410065307.GC13853@64m.dyndns.org>
By author: Christopher Li <lkml@chrisli.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> There is one problem though. How about the SHA1 hash collision?
> Even the chance is very remote, you don't want to lose some data do due
> to "software" error. I think it is OK that no handle that
> case right now. On the other hand, it will be nice to detect that
> and give out a big error message if it really happens.
>

If you're actually worried about it, it'd be better to just use a
different hash, like one of the SHA-2's (probably a better choice
anyway), instead of SHA-1.

-hpa