Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> writes: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> you are inviting people to start using >> >> md5,54ddf8d47340e048166c45f439ce65fd >> >> as object names. > > which might even be okay for specific subsets of operations. > (e.g. all local work including staging things, making local "fixup" commits) > > The addressing scheme should not be too hardcoded, we should rather > treat it similar to the cipher schemes in pgp. The additional complexity that > we have is the longevity of existence of things, though.
The not-so-well-hidden agenda was exactly that we _SHOULD_ not mimick PGP. They do not have a requirement to encourage everybody to use the same thing because each message is encrypted/signed independently, i.e. they do not have to chain things like we do.
