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diff --git a/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt b/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt index 4cb106f0d1..e561e6668c 100644 --- a/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt +++ b/Documentation/object-format-disclaimer.txt @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ -THIS OPTION IS EXPERIMENTAL! SHA-256 support is experimental and still -in an early stage. A SHA-256 repository will in general not be able to -share work with "regular" SHA-1 repositories. It should be assumed -that, e.g., Git internal file formats in relation to SHA-256 -repositories may change in backwards-incompatible ways. Only use -`--object-format=sha256` for testing purposes. +Note: At present, there is no interoperability between SHA-256 +repositories and SHA-1 repositories. + +Historically, we warned that SHA-256 repositories may later need +backward incompatible changes when we introduce such interoperability +features. Today, we only expect compatible changes. Furthermore, if such +changes prove to be necessary, it can be expected that SHA-256 repositories +created with today's Git will be usable by future versions of Git +without data loss. |