[PATCH] Use sha256 for hashes in the release process

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Mon Oct 26 14:20:33 GMT 2020


On Okt 26 2020, Simon Marchi wrote:

> On 2020-10-26 9:31 a.m., Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> But SHA is an abbreviation, so I would expect ES EITCH EI.
>
> More precisely, it is an acronym.  And acronyms are pronounced as a word
> all the time.  Since it's much easier to say "shaw" than "s-h-a", I
> presume most people say "shaw" (that's how I've always heard it anyway).

So the right thing to do is to reformulate the sentence so that it
doesn't depend on sha256sum being a word.

Andreas.

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