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In a well-fleshed-out post, Scott Chacon shows how unneecessary Git 3.0's move to replace SHA-1 with SHA-256 is.

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[–] tetrislife@leminal.space 2 points 4 days ago

If you know of write-ups by others on this, you are welcome to share. It was a pretty long post, so I mentioned who authored it. If it was on, say, LWN, I wouldn't have prefixed anything to the topic. It looks like it also helps people to avoid rich-man blogs (if they want to)!