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Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
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Hacker News | Oct 1, 2026 | chmaynard
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The same content always gets the same hash, globally. In Git, this hash function has always been SHA-1. If every signature also covers a SHA-256 content hash, then SHA-1 isn't protecting anything anymore.
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