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But does not solve the problem. Multihashes are not unique identifiers of a message, which is what git mostly uses hashes for. Now, instead of a single unique identifier, you have N possible ones, where N is the number of hash implementations your multihash library has. And it is not possible to convert between two hash types without having the original message.


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