| 1 | Note: At present, there is no interoperability between SHA-256 |
| 2 | repositories and SHA-1 repositories. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Historically, we warned that SHA-256 repositories may later need |
| 5 | backward incompatible changes when we introduce such interoperability |
| 6 | features. Today, we only expect compatible changes. Furthermore, if such |
| 7 | changes prove to be necessary, it can be expected that SHA-256 repositories |
| 8 | created with today's Git will be usable by future versions of Git |
| 9 | without data loss. |