Minimize assumptions about the reader’s background knowledge.

EVERYONE who writes for an online publication needs tobhave this drilled into them. I feel like a good third of the articles and such that I read suffer from this problem, and yeah, it’s ESPECIALLY prevalent in software and tech.

There’s people who seriously think commit hashes are there for security purposes? Furthermore, there are git MAINTAINERS that think this?

How absurd. Author is completely right, making SHA-256 the default implementation serves no purpose. SHA-1 is a completely valid algorithm for non-security use cases, which is precisely how git uses it. This is a solution looking for a problem.

I think he’s maybe overblowing the impact of this change. Realistically, the only ones who are going to be impacted are the folks who maintain git-related tools and forges, as he mentions. The rest of us probably won’t even notice. But that’s still a ton of pointless work for those folks.

While we’re on the topic, this is a really fun story for anyone who’s not already familiar.