Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256

Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by moonchild on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:05AM (#23582761)

> the SHA256 hashes would be unambiguously not SHA1 hashes, even when abbreviated

Not if your hash happens to not include an 'h'.

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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by kelnos on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:06AM (#23623972)

Not sure I follow. If the SHA1 hashes use [0-9a-f], and the SHA256 hashes use [h-zA-Z] (or something along those lines), there is never any overlap in characters.

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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by rnestler on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:52AM (#23583185)

The current SHA-1 representation uses hexadecimal, so only contains 0-9 and a-f.

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