This year's bikeshedding is next year's SOP. I remember when I first heard of git I wondered why it didn't use a member of the SHA-2 family (which had been out

This year's bikeshedding is next year's SOP. I remember when I first heard of git I wondered why it didn't use a member of the SHA-2 family (which had been out for several years by then). Even in 2005 I think that it was fast enough.