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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by dependenttypes on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:56AM (#23582959)
Alternatively you can prepend the name of the hash used
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by capableweb on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:14AM (#23583024)
And now you basically reinvented multihashes :)

https://multiformats.io/multihash/

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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by dependenttypes on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:22PM (#23586271)
I do not like multihash. I personally prefer base64 hashes and I also do not like how they include the length.
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