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When you say hash tree do you mean Merkle trees? What research are you referring to? Git uses the Merkle tree scheme. It just creates a binary listing of a d
by chubot 13y ago
When you say hash tree do you mean Merkle trees? What research are you referring to?
Git uses the Merkle tree scheme. It just creates a binary listing of a directory, which the SHA1 of each file in it, and then takes the SHA1 of that dir object. Is there something insufficient about that?
- anaphor 13y agoI mean merkle trees more or less yeah. I don't remember all of the sources I researched but here is a source for the use of two different hash functions (it was for leaves not edges, my bad): http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/2106/what-is-the-purpose-of-using-different-hash-functions-for-the-leaves-and-interna http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/2106/what-is-the-p...