alt Hacker NewsThat's impressive. I suppose they had a more flexible architecture to make that change so fast.
Is there any writeup on why it was easy for them and not for git?
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gandreani • yesterday at 6:21 PM
Hmm probably nothing architecture wise. It's probably just the fact that fossil is developed by way fewer devs.
From the skim I read of this article it seems both projects arrived at the same solution: support both but make SHA-256 the default.
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My guess is that it's less about the architecture and more about the blast radius and the number of users