- Downloads - Docs - Community - Source code - Downloads - Docs - Community - Source code Today by Scott Chacon ## Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare. Where to begin? I've been sitting on this for a few years, mostly because there are smarter people who have been concentrating on this and I don't love being a back seat driver. However, I think that the Git 3.0 release is about to cost everyone a lot of…