No disrespect to Linus, but why didn't he just switch Git to SHA2 five years ago instead of justifying SHA1 today?https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/7tp2gYWQugL …
It's not "increasing a field size". It's re-architecturing/retrofitting two hashes everywhere.
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You can't just get rid of/replace the existing sha1 hashes because of external (and internal, in commit msgs) refs to them.
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