Gitlab Gitaly project now supports the SHA-256 hashing algorithm

Re:Gitlab Gitaly project now supports the SHA-256 hashing al... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday August 28, 2023 @09:28PM (#37302453)

Clicking through to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly yields

> Gitaly is a Git RPC service for handling all the git calls made by GitLab

So I think this means that a major piece of gitlab now supports sha256 git repos? But probably not everything and therefore we can't actually push sha256 git repos to gitlab yet?

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Re:Gitlab Gitaly project now supports the SHA-256 hashing al... by aaronmdjones on Monday August 28, 2023 @10:16PM (#37302762)

The answer to your question is in the first sentence of the article.

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Re:Gitlab Gitaly project now supports the SHA-256 hashing al... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday August 28, 2023 @11:27PM (#37303238)

Ah, now that I reread it, yes it does say

> While there is still some work we need to do in other parts of the GitLab application before SHA-256 repositories can be used, this milestone is important.

Somehow I managed to skim over and miss that; I was expecting a "what this means for gitlab" or "next steps" section.

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Re:Gitlab Gitaly project now supports the SHA-256 hashing al... by jchw on Monday August 28, 2023 @10:24PM (#37302817)

Yeah, Gitaly is GitLab's approach to scaling up the actual Git operations. It's certainly a major part of the equation, but the article suggests the Rails app still has a bit of work to go before it's possible to use SHA256 repos.

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