Hi All, I do not know whether this would be a good enhancement or micro project for someone (maybe me) to take on, but I'm wondering whether it might be a good idea to provide an option to hash-object to select the signature being computed. The use case begins when someone computes an object signature and stores a pre-converted SHA1 value. Then the repository is changed over to SHA256. When hash-object is next called, perhaps in a different clone or some other "next" scenario, the new signature will be SHA256, if I understand this correctly, and from the perspective of the someone in the use case, the signature mismatches.
What I am proposing is an option like --signature-type=SHA1|SHA256 or similar as an option to hash-object to allow the non-default signature to be selected explicitly. This is not entirely trivial looking through the code and presumably would require either teaching hash_object_file_literally or having a separate method to do the alternate calculation. Thoughts? Regards, Randall -- Brief whoami: NonStop developer since approximately 211288444200000000 UNIX developer since approximately 421664400 -- In my real life, I talk too much.
