On 2022-06-26 at 00:27:57, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 5:10 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> > Is there at this point a solid plan for how SHA-256 repos will support
> > access SHA-1 only clients?
> >
> > I remember reading a discussion of having a table somewhere that would
> > translate SHA-256 to SHA-1 when needed.
> 
> Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt has flushed out
> the necessary details?

Yup.  The design there sounds very simple and it is, conceptually, but
practically implementing it is quite complex.

You can pull the in-progress work from transition-interop on my GitHub
remote to see where some of the complexity lies.
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brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA