Funny, I always expected Git to transition by adding a stronger hash as a piece of metadata to each commit and continue using SHA-1 for the day-to-day identifie

Funny, I always expected Git to transition by adding a stronger hash as a piece of metadata to each commit and continue using SHA-1 for the day-to-day identifier, seeing as most of the time Git doesn't actually go back and actually verify the whole commit chain unless you ask it to.