> I'm honestly still shocked that updating the hashing algorithm wasn't built into Git from day one. I really wonder why. The first basically functional versio

> I'm honestly still shocked that updating the hashing algorithm wasn't built into Git from day one. I really wonder why. The first basically functional version of Git was created in less than a month by Linus Torvalds, immediately after Bitkeeper revoked the license/permission for linux kernel developers to use that proprietary source control tool for free. Linus took a look at Monotone and Mercurial IIRC, but they were not nearly fast enough at that time, so he created Git to just do what the linux kernel development community needed. This isn't the first time Linus did something that academics said was a terrible mistake, and then his creation took over the freaking world, because it works so freaking well. (And it still does today, 16 years later. Maybe tomorrow it won't, I dunno. But it probably will.)