>>>>> On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, hasufell  wrote:

>> Have these plans been abandoned, and are we now planning to
>> distribute the tree to users via Git, where everything goes through
>> the bottleneck of a SHA-1 sum, which was never intended as a
>> security feature?

> This is a bug in git. Do you want us to wait until it is resolved?

Not a bug. There are VCSs (like Subversion or Bazaar) that use simple
revision numbers to identify their commits. Git happens to use a hash,
which is perfectly fine as long as accidental collisions are unlikely.
Neither has to do anything with security, though.

Ulrich

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