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