It doesn't say "that". It says SHA1 Checksum: As I'm sure you know md5 is well broken in terms of being a poor security hash.
Philip ----- Original Message ----- From: Gokul To: git-users@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 9:21 PM Subject: [git-users] md5sum check fails I tried to verify the integrity of git-man-pages package I downloaded from "http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/detail?name=git-manpages-1.8.4.tar.gz&can=2&q="; Command which i ran: md5sum git-manpages-1.8.4.tar.gz Output displayed: e3720f56e18a5ab8ee1871ac9c72ca7c git-manpages-1.8.4.tar.gz But the checksum given in the site reads 8c67a7bc442d6191bc17633c7f2846c71bda71cf git-manpages-1.8.4.tar.gzAm i doing something wrong?Please clarify. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
