We already assume Sha-1 is unique in wc-Ng, so introducing sha256 would not help. It is also much more expensive to obtain then sha1 and md5.
Bert Huijben (Cell phone) From: Hyrum K Wright Sent: 4-2-2012 10:51 To: Bert Huijben Cc: Julian Foad; Subversion Development Subject: Re: Why do we check the base checksum so often? On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote: > We could change that for Ev2 but how are you going to change Subversion > 1.0-1.7? > > Can I borrow your time-machine? ;-) > > Md5 is not unique enough to pick a base. Is SHA-1 sufficient? Should we be using SHA-256 to identify content in Ev2? -Hyrum -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
