Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision

Re:Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision by KingMob on Friday February 24, 2017 @12:04AM (#13721156)

Which is largely irrelevant on desktops. Nobody's using git on embedded devices, so hash computational cost shouldn't be the deciding factor. Maybe people storing BLOBs will notice.

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Re:Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision by reacweb on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:58AM (#13722387)

There are blobs in the kernel and speed was a very important motivation when kernel switched to git.

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Re:Linus' reply on Git and SHA-1 collision by loup-vaillant on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:08AM (#13722440)

So now we need to assess whether hashes are a significant bottleneck.

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