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Re:Linus on Git and SHA-1 by the_mitsuhiko on Saturday February 25, 2017 @04:24PM (#13733921)
> Linus's transition plan seems to involve truncating SHA-256 to 160-bits.

This is not the plan. This is the backwards compatible system for tools that can only deal with 40 characters.

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