On 2020-02-11 at 16:40:56, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> I can see a future where we have a different format that allows for
> more metadata so we can encode the hash size separately. But maybe
> that can be for format v3 and up.
> 
> Let's do format v2 = format v1 but with 32-byte hashes.

The way we've preferred to do this in Git is to write a four-byte hash
identifier into the file, but we have legacy concerns here, so I think
switching to v2 for SHA-256 is fine.
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