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What steps will reproduce the problem?
-As described in http://git-annex.branchable.com/backends/#comment-3c1cd45d2a015b4fc412dd813293ad7d , sha512 is faster. On my 64-bit system, the speed difference is about 1.5times.
+As described in
+http://git-annex.branchable.com/backends/#comment-3c1cd45d2a015b4fc412dd813293ad7d
+, sha512 is faster. On my 64-bit system, the speed difference is about
+1.5times.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
@@ -10,4 +13,15 @@ What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
Please provide any additional information below.
-
+> You are free to change the default in your own annexes. This is very easy
+> to do: `echo '* annex.backend=SHA512E' > .gitattributes`
+>
+> I don't anticipate moving to SHA512, because
+>
+> 1. It makes `ls -l` really ugly. Each symlink takes like 4 lines
+> on an 80 column terminal.
+> 2. There are better hashes coming. Particularly SHA3. That should be
+> faster and/or more secure. And without adding so much length to the
+> hash.
+>
+> --[[Joey]]