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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by ptx on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:26AM (#23583316)
In this specific context though, nobody is going to be manually calculating the binary hash of the source tree and encoding it, so this advantage doesn't seem very relevant.

The proposed solution would still be alphanumeric, so it would share that advantage.

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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by notriddle on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:49PM (#23588430)
The problem isn't with the algorithm encoding it. The problem is with other software mangling it.

Base 64 has punctuation, it's case sensitive, and trimming a = off the end will (counterintuitively) result in a longer payload. All of this makes screwing around with commit hashes more complicated.

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