From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: rsbecker@nexbridge.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Gitorious should use CRC128 / 256 / 512 instead of SHA-1
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 17:06:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2e6fdc3-fbb0-821c-078f-1ad4e55dc8e3@selasky.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230113160218.d3nsoxpbrxrrszhz@meerkat.local>
On 1/13/23 17:02, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 04:54:39PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> On 1/13/23 16:45, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
>>> If, for some reason, Linus ever needs to remove something
>>> from linux.git, he will do it and just give a heads-up why and for what
>>> reason.
>>
>> This gotta be a joke.
>>
>> There are 46K forks of Linus Torvalds Linux kernel on GitHUB, and if Linus
>> Torvalds one day decides to do a forced push, it will for sure be a
>> disaster!
>
> No it won't, and I speak from some position of authority on this subject (I'm
> responsible for git.kernel.org).
>
> If Linus has to alter the history of linux.git, it will for sure be an
> extraordinary event -- it's never happened yet. However, it will be widely
> publicised, the reasons for it will be made clear, and everyone will just
> accept it and move on.
>
> Git history edits occur all the time. Most tooling expects this to
> occasionally happen and deals with it correctly.
>
OK, if you say so. Though in my mind 46K rebases of millions of commits
seem a lot overhead.
However, if history can be edited anyway, why do you need the
cryptographic hash algorithm. Why not use a non-cryptographic one?
What's the point? Only so that one party can stay in control?
--HPS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-13 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-13 12:59 Gitorious should use CRC128 / 256 / 512 instead of SHA-1 Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 13:30 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2023-01-13 13:39 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 14:21 ` rsbecker
2023-01-13 14:42 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 15:45 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-01-13 15:50 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 15:56 ` rsbecker
2023-01-13 16:02 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 15:54 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 16:02 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-01-13 16:06 ` Hans Petter Selasky [this message]
2023-01-13 16:18 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 16:36 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-01-13 16:44 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 16:49 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-01-13 16:51 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 16:27 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-01-13 16:30 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 16:35 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 16:41 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-01-13 16:45 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 15:15 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-13 17:44 ` Philip Oakley
2023-01-13 15:30 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2023-01-13 15:39 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-01-13 13:23 Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-14 23:59 ` brian m. carlson
2023-01-15 3:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-15 10:09 ` demerphq
2023-01-16 7:21 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-16 7:23 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-16 12:34 ` rsbecker
2023-01-16 14:01 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-16 15:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-15 13:53 ` Michal Suchánek
2023-01-16 7:17 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-16 9:13 ` Michal Suchánek
2023-01-16 9:55 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-16 12:31 ` rsbecker
2023-01-16 14:10 ` Hans Petter Selasky
2023-01-16 19:08 ` Michal Suchánek
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