Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git?
I&#x27;m the person and Git developer (Ævar) quoted in the article. I didn&#x27;t expect this to end up on LWN. I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions here that people might have.<p>I don&#x27;t think the LWN article can be said to take anything out of context. But I think it&#x27;s worth empathizing that this is a thread on the Git ML in response to a user who&#x27;s asking if Git&#x2F;SHA-256 is something &quot;that users should start changing over to[?]&quot;.<p>I stand by the comments that I think the current state of Git is that we shouldn&#x27;t be recommending to users that they use SHA-256 repositories without explaining some major caveats, mainly to do with third party software support, particularly the lack of support from the big online &quot;forges&quot;.<p>But I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s any disagreement in the Git development community (and certainly not from me) that Git should be moving towards migrating away from SHA-1.