From 23a137ed9f2acf4b381b99ae25115d09158e6963 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Ryder Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 23:00:35 +1200 Subject: Add a correction and note --- README.markdown | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index 54a83c6..887f18b 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ If you end up hashing a lot of files because their sizes are the same, and you're not worried about [SHA-1 technically being broken in practice][1], it's a tiny bit faster: - $ CHECKEM_ALG=sha1 checkem /dir + $ CHECKEM_ALG=SHA-1 checkem /dir + +Realistically, this is almost certainly splitting hairs. Theoretically, you could read only the first *n* bytes of each hash-needing file and hash those with some suitable inexpensive function *f*, and just -- cgit v1.2.3