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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SHA256 support not experimental, or?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:44:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqedkuei7e.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr0p230rj.fsf@gitster.g> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:18:08 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com> writes:
>
>> I'll try again with inline patch.
>>
>> From 90be51143e741053390810720ba4a639c3b0b74c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>
> Remove all the above lines (including the "From <commit object
> ...
>> Signed-off-by: Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/git.txt                      | 4 ++--
>>  Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt | 8 ++------
>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>> ...
> This side looks OK (just removing the single sentence).
>
>>  Git Commits
>>  ~~~~~~~~~~~
>> diff --git a/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt b/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt
>> index 4cb106f0d1..1e976688be 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt
>> @@ -1,6 +1,2 @@
>> ...
>
> The original did not have this problem because it had enough
> surrounding context, but the updated text now risks getting misread
> as if there are "regular" and "special" SHA-1 repositories, the
> latter of which might work better with SHA-256.
>
> And the message about SHA-256's non-experimental status can probably
> be a lot stronger, after the discussion we had recently.  How about
> saying something like:
>
>     Note: there is no interoperability between SHA-256 repositories
>     and SHA-1 repositories right now.  We historically warned that
>     SHA-256 repositories may need backward incompatible changes
>     later when we introduce such interoperability features, but at
>     this point we do not expect that we need to make such a change
>     when we do so, and the users can expect that their SHA-256
>     repositories they create with today's Git will be usable by
>     future versions of Git without losing information.
>
> which would probably be much closer to what you wanted to hear?

It has been a week.  Any news on this topic?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-26 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-28 16:28 SHA256 support not experimental, or? Adam Majer
2023-06-29  1:59 ` brian m. carlson
2023-06-29 10:42   ` Adam Majer
2023-06-29  5:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-29 10:53   ` Adam Majer
2023-06-29 20:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-29 21:17   ` brian m. carlson
2023-06-29 22:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-30  1:21       ` brian m. carlson
2023-06-30  9:31         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2023-06-30 11:25           ` Adam Majer
2023-06-30 11:38             ` Patrick Steinhardt
2023-06-30 12:20             ` Son Luong Ngoc
2023-06-30 16:45               ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-20 15:07 ` Adam Majer
2023-07-20 18:18   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-26 16:44     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-07-31 13:38     ` Adam Majer
2023-07-31 13:42       ` [PATCH] doc: sha256 is no longer experimental Adam Majer
2023-07-31 16:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2023-07-31 16:44           ` Adam Majer

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