[Gnu-arch-users] Re: sha1 support

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:31, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 19:01, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> > That's true but it will only reduce, (probably) not eliminate those
> > effected by the discontinuity.
> 
> True.  But given the community's awareness, I think it would come quite
> close to eliminating it.

You'd be surprised. I've had a non-trivial number of emails from folk.

> > Is there a rush for sha1 stuff?   Is there some reason why buffering
> > the checksums before writing the file is a bad idea?

There is a rush - to get it done right in 1.2, which is imminent.

> It makes the code uglier, and moreover it's code that we'll be stuck
> with forever.

Nope, once 1.2 or 1.3 is out, we can fix it - the issue will be gone, as
noone should be using a 1.2pre at that point.

> Anyways, I've made the change you requested.  I still don't like it
> though.

Thank you. Reviewed and merged.
Rob

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