Plans for git (was: Please check the current beta git conversions)

[Ed Maste]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 07:51, Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > Git also supports sha-256 soon now, adoption should
> > be researched from various online article series and
> > work product before committing plans...
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/823352/
> > https://git-scm.com/docs/hash-function-transition
>
> "soon now" seems a bit vague, from what I have read on the subject,
> whilst the local repository operations are working with SHA256 hashes,
> it is still lacking remote transport, clones, and such.

Yes, Git will migrate to SHA256 but will not be completely finished
sufficiently soon to matter for our needs. We'll eventually deal with
the migration the same way as everyone else.