Support Git Repositories With SHA-256 Object Hashes

[x80486]

I'm currently trying to open up some Git repositories that use SHA-256 object hashes, but GitFourchette fails to open the repositories.

The command-line handles the repository fine, indicating the repository itself is valid, so looks like GitFourchette does not recognize SHA-256 object names or packfiles — or that's what I infer.

If I'm correct, would you have any timeline to recognize SHA-256 object names and/or reftable format?

[jorio]

GitFourchette uses libgit2 (via its Python bindings, pygit2) to build its internal model of the repository. While libgit2 has experimental support for SHA-256 object hashes, pygit2 isn't SHA-256 aware yet.

Once both these libraries support SHA-256 officially, I do intend to have GitFourchette follow suit, but I don't have a clear ETA for this at the moment. I feel that the bulk of the work will be to contribute SHA-256 support to pygit2.

[x80486]

I will leave this open to track progress.