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2013-04-17 18:35:38 +00:00
What steps will reproduce the problem?
2013-04-18 16:34:07 +00:00
As described in
http://git-annex.branchable.com/backends/#comment-3c1cd45d2a015b4fc412dd813293ad7d
, sha512 is faster. On my 64-bit system, the speed difference is about
1.5times.
2013-04-17 18:35:38 +00:00
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
Please provide any additional information below.
2013-04-18 16:34:07 +00:00
> You are free to change the default in your own annexes. This is very easy
> to do: `echo '* annex.backend=SHA512E' > .gitattributes`
>
> I don't anticipate moving to SHA512, because
>
> 1. It makes `ls -l` really ugly. Each symlink takes like 4 lines
> on an 80 column terminal.
> 2. There are better hashes coming. Particularly SHA3. That should be
> faster and/or more secure. And without adding so much length to the
> hash.
>
> --[[Joey]]