Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Possibly deduplicate raw/identity

Open
#71 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by reviewing how the multicodec table represents 0x55 for DagRAW and 0x0 for the identity multihash, then determine whether they can share a codec. Done requires an agreed approach for deduplication and its long-term compatibility migration.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

We currently have 0x55 for DagRAW and 0x0 for the "identity" multihash. These are really the same thing and could use the same codec. Thoughts? This would, unfortunately, have to change slowly over a long time but it still annoys me that we have both.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
383
Forks
221
Avg merge
24d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from multiformats/multicodec

All issues in multiformats/multicodec

Similar issues

More Python issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.